LIBRARY 

OF 

ALFRED  MUDG-E, 


'^/e, 


THE 


MELROSE    MEMORIAL 


THE 


ANNALS    OF    MELROSE 


COUNTY   OF   MIDDLESEX,  MASSACHTSETTS 


GREAT     REBELLION    OF     1 86  I"  65 


By    Elbridge    H.    Goss 


PRIVATELY     PRINTED     BY     SUBSCRIPTION 
1868 


ALFRED   MUDGE   &   SON, 

PRINTERS, 

34   SCHOOL  STREET,    BOSTON. 


TO    THE 


BOYS   IN   BLUE, 


WHO     WENT    FORTH     TO     BATTLE, 


MELROSE, 


THIS  VOLUME  IS  RESPECTFULLY   INSCRIBED. 


iviJi93y91 


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PREFACE. 


It  has  been  the  aim  of  the  writer  of  the  following  pages  to 
gather  such  facts  and  incidents  pertaining  to  the  action  of  our 
town,  and  of  its  citizens,  in  the  late  Rebellion,  as  may  be  inter- 
esting to  us  and  to  those  who  shall  occupy  our  places  hereafter. 
With  what  interest  would  any  of  us  read  a  similar  collection  of 
facts  concerning  the  action  of  our  native  town  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary war,  or  the  war  of  1812  ;  the  sacrifices  it  made,  the 
heroes  it  furnished,  and  the  martyrs  to  justice  and  liberty  then 
offered  upon  their  country's  altar. 

Soldiers'  monuments  are  appropriate  memorials  ;  and  it  is 
well  that  the  memory  of  our  dead  heroes  should  be  thus  em- 
balmed. May  scores  of  monumental  piles  be  yet  reared  through- 
out the  length  and  breadth  of  the  land,  reminding  us  and  fu- 
ture generations  of  their  bravery,  of  their  virtues,  and  of  their 
patriotism.  And  where  such  monument  has  or  has  not  been 
raised,  it  would  be  a  desirable  fact,  and  an  interesting  matter 
of  history,  if  each  town,  or  city,  would  have  a  published  record 
of  the  items  of  its  individual  action  in  the  late  war.  Future 
generations  would  turn  the  leaves  of  such  annals  with  pleasure 
and  gratitude. 

Two  years  and  a  half  had  passed  away  after  the  close  of  the 
great  contest  between  Right  and  Wrong,  before  the  task  of 
gathering  the  material  for  this  volume  was  commenced.  Had  it 
been  undertaken  sooner,  or  begun  and  continued  during  the 
progress  of  the  war,  the  labor  would  have  been  easier,  and, 
probably,  some  facts  which  have  been  forgotten,  and  the  whirl 
of  time  has  confused,  might  have  been  recorded.    Undoubtedly 


VI  PREFACE. 

many  interesting  incidents,  which  were  not  minuted  at  the  time 
of  their  occurrence,  have  passed  away  never  to  be  recalled. 

Words  of  encouragement  have  .ever  been  given  by  all  my 
fellow-citizens  whenever  mention  was  made  of  this  undertak- 
ing ;  and  when  information  has  been  sought  it  has  been  very 
readily  given.  My  thanks  are  due  to  the  Selectmen  of  the  town, 
past  and  present,  to  many  of  our  Soldiers,  and  to  Adjutant- 
General  Cunningham  and  his  gentlemanly  clerks,  for  informa- 
tion given  and  favors  granted. 

The  well-known  historian,  Mr.  Benson  J.  Lossing,  author  of 
the  deservedly  popular  "  Pictorial  Field  Book  of  the  Revolu- 
tion," "Pictorial  Field  Book  of  the  War  of  1812,"  "Pictorial 
History  of  the  Civil  War,"  "  Washington's  Home,"  and  many 
other  useful  historical  works,  says,  in  a  letter  to  me  : 

"  I  am  glad  you  have  undertaken  the  work  you  mention. 
These  local  histories  will  form  the  solid  and  reliable  materials 
for  the  use  of  future  histoi'ians,  and  cannot  be  too  minutely 
given.  They  will  be  of  immense  value.  I  hope  you  will  make 
thorough  work.  Give  the  name  of  every  man  who  took  up 
arms  for  his  country,  with  brief  biographies  of  the  leading  ones. 
You  will  thus  leave  an  enduring  legacy  of  honor  to  their  pos- 
terities." 

Believing  that  something  of  this  kind  was  due  to  our  town 
and  to  those  who  went  forth  to  fight  our  battles,  this  work  has 
been  accomplished  during  moments  of  limited  leisure,  and  is  now 
submitted  to  my  fellow-citizens  with  the  hope  that  its  faults 
and  deficiencies,  —  and  no  one  knows  better  than  the  writer 
that  they  are  many,  —  may  be  kindly  overlooked,  and  with  the 
wish  that  some  abler  pen  than  mine  had  been  prompted  to  per- 
form the  task. 

E.  H.  G. 

Melrose,  Sept.  i8th,  1868. 


CONTENTS. 


Page. 

I.  Index  to  Names  of  Melrose  Citizens xi. 

II.  Index  to  Regiments  and  Batteries xxvii. 

III.  Index  to  Battles  and  Engagements  .....        xxviiL 

I. 

1861.  Opening  of  the  Rebellion.  —  Call  for  Three  Months'  Troops.— 
The  Sixth  Massachusetts  Regiment.  —  Governor  Andrew's  Address.  — 
Our  Three  Months'  Men  in  the  Fourth  and  Fifth  Regiments.  —  The 
Massachusetts  Troops.  I 

11. 

1861  continued.  Call  for  Three  Years'  Men.  —  Our  First  Town  Meeting. 
— Votes  passed.  —  Enlistments.  —  Our  Men  in  the  Thirteenth  Massachu- 
setts Regiment  — Second  Regiment  — Twelfth  Regiment  12 

III. 

1 86 1  continued.  Call  for  more  Troops.  —  Our  Men  in  the  Sixteenth 
Regiment  —  Seventeenth  Regiment  —  Eighteenth.  —  Twentieth.  —  Twen- 
ty-Second.—  Twenty-Third.  —  Twenty- Fourth,  —  Twenty-Sixth.  —  Thir- 
tieth. —  Thirty-Second.  —  Ninety-Ninth  New  York  Regiment  —  Second 
Battery.  —  Third  Battery.  —  Fourth  Battery.  —  Fifth  Battery.  —  First 
Cavalry  Regiment.  —  Number  of  Men  furnished  in  1861.  20 

IV. 

1862.  Third  Call  for  Troops.  —  War  Meeting.  —  Town  Meeting.  — 
Action  taken  and  Votes  passed.  —  Our  Men  in  the  Eleventh  E  egiment. 

—  Thirty-Third.  —  Thirty-Eighth.  —  Thirty-Ninth.  —  First  Heavy  Artil- 
lery. —  Ninth  Battery.  —  Thirteenth  Battery.  —  Second  Cavalry.  —  Third 
Cavalry.  37 

V. 

1862  continued.  Call  for  Nine  Months' Men. — War  Meetings.  —  Town 
Meeting.  —  Action  taken  and  Votes  passed.  —  Our  Men  in  the  Fifth  Regi- 
ment —  Forty-Second.  —  Forty-Third.  —  Forty- Fourth.  —  Forty- Fifth. 

—  Forty-Eighth.  —  Fiftieth.  —  Number  of  Men  furnished  in  1862.  54 


Vlll  CONTENTS. 


VI. 


1863.  Conscription  Act.  —  Another  Call  for  Troops.  —  Town  Meeting.  — 
Our  Recruiting  Committee.  —  Our  Men  in  the  Fifteenth  Regiment.  — 
Fifty-Fourth.  —  Fifty-Sixth.  —  Fifty-Ninth.  —  Third  Heavy  Artillery.  — 
Fourth. —  Number  of  Men  furnished  in  1863.  71 

VII. 

1864—5.  Town  Meetings.  —  Votes  passed.  —  Injunction.  —  Recruiting 
Fund  Meetings.  —  Citizens'  Subscription.  82 

VIII. 

1864.  Call  for  One  Hundred  Days'  Men.  —  Our  Men  in  Fifth  Regiment. 
—  Sixth.  —  Eighth.  —  Sixtieth.  —  Ninety  Days'  Men.  —  Seventh  Unat- 
tached Company.  —  One  Year's  Men.  —  Sixty-First  Regiment.  93 

IX. 

186 1— 5.  Navy.  —  Non-residents  credited  to  Melrose.  —  Our  Men  in  Naval 
Service.  99 

X.  • 

The  Draft  of  1863.  — Names  of  the  Drafted.  —  Draft  Celebration.  —  Draft 
of  1864.  —  Names  of  the  Drafted.  —  Substitutes  for  Enrolled  Men.  — 
Representative  Recruits.  109 

XI. 
186 1— 5-     Whole  number  of  Men  furnished.  —  Our  Surplus.  —  Quotas.  123 

XII. 

1 86 1— 5.  Relief  of  Soldiers  and  their  Families.  —  State  Aid.  —  Subscrip- 
tions by  Citizens  and  Churches.  —  Various  methods  taken  for  showing  our 
good  will.  130 

XIII. 

Our  "  Roll  of  Honor."  —  Obituary  Notices.  —  George  J.  Morse.  —  George 
T.  Martin.  —  Henry  F.  Fuller.  —  Martin  Greene.  —  William  H.  Macey.  — 
Sidney  B.  Morse,  2d.  —  William  F.  Barry.  —  John  P.  Shelton.  —  Thomas 
H.  Stevens.  —  Edmund  W.  Davis.  —  Jonas  G.  Brown.  —  Benjamin 
Lynde.  —  Nathan  H.  Brand.  —  Richard  Lever.  —  Augustus  Green.  — 
Albert  W.  Crockett  —  James  R.  Howard.  —  Francis  Peabody.  —  George 
E.  Richardson.  —  Benjamin  F.  Wilde.  —  John  E.  Stilphen.  —  George 
W.  Lynde.  —  William  F.  Krantz.  137 


CONTENTS.  IX 

XIV. 

In  Rebel  Prisons.  —  Forty-Second  Regiment.  —  Archibald  Bogle.  —  Henry 
H.  Jones.  —  George  E.  Richardson.  —  Albert  W.  Crockett.  —  William 
H.  Eastman. —  Edmund  W.  Davis. —  George  W.  Batchelder.  —  John  L. 
Chambers.  —  Benjamin  F.  York.  —  Frederick  W.  Krantz.  —  George  W. 
Elliot.  —  John  E.  Quinn.  —  Henry  Stone.  —  Anderson ville.  185 

XV. 

Close  of  the  Rebellion.  —  Fall  of  Richmond.  —  Death  of  President  Lincoln. 

—  Funeral  Ceremonies.  —  Rev.  Henry  Baker's  Address.  208 

XVI. 

Miscellaneous.  —  Cost  of  the  War  to  Town.  —  To  Citizens,  —  List  of  Town 
Officers.  —Valuation.  —  Table  of  Debt.  —  Table  of  Bounties.  —  Of  Men. 

—  Destruction  of  Rebel  Blockade  Runner.  —  Farragut's  Naval  Victory  at 
Mobile.  —  Incidents.  —  Articles  Exchanged.  219 

XVII. 

List  of  Commissioned  Officers.  —  Alphabetical  Roll  of  Melrose  Soldiers. 

—  Melrose  Men  on  other  Quotas.  241 


APPENDIX. 

A.  Certificate  of  a  Non-resident  Recruit 277 

B.  Form  for  Payment  of  Bounty 277 

C.  Certificate  of  Consent  to  the  Enlistment  of  a  Minor  .        .        .  278 

D.  List  of  Citizens  liable  to  Draft  in  1863 279 

E.  Exemption  Certificates 285 

F.  Exemption  —  Substitute  for  Enrolled  Man     ....  287 

G.  Receipt  and  Certificate  —  Representative  Recruit       .        .        .  289 

H.     Instructions  to  Enrolling  Officer 290 

I.      Discharge  Papers 291 

J.      Town  Action,  Nov.  3,  1868 -92 

b 


I. 

INDEX 

TO    THE 

NAMES     OF     MELROSE     CITIZENS. 


SOLDIERS  IN   SMALL  CAPITALS. 

A. 

Page. 

Abbott,  Benjamin  F.,  M.  D 90,  222 

Adams,  John  Q 89,  283 

Alden,  David  A 118,279 

Allen,  John  L 87,114,279 

Allen,  William  H 86,  279 

Anderson,  John  H.  L. 96,118,244,279 

Anderson,  Leonard  B •       .  62, 244 

Andrews,  Edwin  A 32,  244 

Andrews,  John  L 89 

Astle,  Abel,  M.  D. 90 

Astle,  James 89,  113,  279 

Atwood,  Joel 89 

Atwood,  Sullivan  C 90,  279 

Averj-,  Ephraim 222 

Avery,  John  Q.  A.     ■; 283 

B. 

Babb,  Walter         .        .        .        .        .        .        .        .    56,83,89,113,279 

Bacon,  George  A 40,  56 

Baker,  Rev.  Henry 211,  212,  214 

Baldwin,  John 86,  283 

Banfield,  Addison  W.  56,  279 

Barker,  Josiah  H 91 

Barker,  Samuel 89,  283 

Barnard,  John  M.  Jr. 59,  244 


Xll  INDEX, 

Pagb. 

Barnes,  Rev.  William  S 211,212,213,225 

Barrett,  Artemas 88,  120,  222,  225 

Barrett,  Augustus 86,  283 

Barrett,  Charles 59,  244 

Barrett,  Charles  L. 59,  244 

Barrett,  David  A. 272 

Barrett,  Henry  W 112,279 

Barrett,  Jonathan 88,113,279 

Barrett,  James  A. 87,  279 

Barron,  Elliot  F.  .       .        . 66, 244 

Barron,  Henry  27, 244 

Barry,  Royal  P .        .     63,  90,  244,  278 

Barry,  William  F 15,  43,  139,  149,  244 

Bartlett,  George  W •.        .        .        .        .  88,  283 

Bartlett,  Nathaniel  J 86,112,279 

Batchelder,  George  W 9,  27,  31,  187,  242,  244 

Batchelder,  Peter 89 

Beckett,  James  M.     .         . 87,  222 

Biathrow,  Franklin 279 

Bickford,  Ira  H 86,  283 

BicKFORD,  Nelson  W. 40, 47,  244 

Biffin,  James 118,  279 

Bigelow,  Liberty 88 

Bird,  Henry  S. 283 

Bishop,  Daniel  H. 279 

Blaisdell,  Charles  H 87,  114,  279 

Blake,  John 222 

Blanchard,  Samuel  D 92 

BoARDMAN,  Charles 59.  88,  244 

Boardman,  George  F ^    .        .88,  224,  283 

Boardman,  William  W 283 

BonwELL,  Henry  A. 28,  100,  244 

Bogle,  Archibald       ....       23,  35,  70,  80,  187,  189,  241,  244 

Bowker,  Charles  F.    .        .        .       " 90 

Bowker,  Joel 87 

Bowker,  Joseph  C 91 

Brackett,  Gilbert  A 279 

Bradford,  Erastus  F. 87,  283 

Brand,  Nathan  H 40,50,140,246 

Brooks,  Augustus 91,  283 

Brown,  Benjamin    .        .        .        , 283 


INDEX.  Xlll 

Page. 

Brown,  George  E 90.  2 79 

Brown,  Increase  H.  Jr.  .    , 283 

Brown,  John 283 

Brown,  Jonas  G. 66,  139,  159,  246 

Brown,  Laroy 279 

Brown,  Oren "3.279 

Bryant,  Dexter 122,  279 

Bryant,  Hon.  Napoleon  B 13,  4°.  43.  5^.  73.  ^6,  283 

Bryant,  Thomas  O.         .        . 59. 246 

BuFFUM,  Adelbert  A. 29,  246 

Buffum,  C.  Edgar 87 

Buffum,  Carlon 91.  283 

Bugbee,  Francis 222 

Bugbee,  Samuel  S. 87,  283 

Burgess,  William  B.  .        .         13,  42,  43,  73,  82,  89,  132,  223,  224,  278 

Bumham,  George  P 223 

BuRNHAM,  Oliver  R 94.  246 

BuRNHAM,  Paschal  E 59.  9^.  246 

Buttrick,  John  P 9^ 

BuTTRicK,  John  W 58,  88,  246 

c. 

Chadbourne,  Thomas  W .        .        .      89,  225 

Chambers,  John  L. 195, 272 

Chandler,  Roswell  W 35,  246 

Chapin,  Calvin  N 9°.  283 

Chapin,  Joseph  A 51,  246,  277,  278 

Chase,  Daniel  G 283 

Chase,  Daniel  L 113,280 

Chase,  Ede  K 58,  246 

Chase,  Sanford  W 280 

Cheever,  Augustus  L. 76,  114,  246,  280 

Chipman,  George  A 63,  89,  94,  243,  246 

Chute,  Robert  J 87 

Clark,  Frederic  F 59,  248 

Clark,  Colonel  John  H.        13,  39, 43,  55,  73,  82, 83, 87,  116, 1 18,  132,  224,  278 

Clark,  William 90,  118,  283 

Cleaveland,  Nathan  S.        .        .        .        .  / 283 

Close,  Emery 91 

Cobb,  Elisha  W 4°.  4i.  283 

Cobb,  John  W 88,283 


XIV  INDEX. 

Pagb. 

Coburn,  Lewis  G .88,  131,  283 

Coburn,  Lucius 280 

Cochran,  Jonathan 222,  223 

Cochran,  Nelson '        56,88,222,225 

Coffin,  Galen 283 

Collins,  Walter  R 89 

Connell,  James 283 

Conway,  Daniel 9^*  283 

Conway,  John  Jr 88 

Coolidge,  Charles  G. 283 

Coolidge,  Rev,  J.  A 223 

Cook,  William 113,  280 

Cooper,  Rev.  James I4>  223 

Corson,  Frederic  U 59»  248 

Corson,  George  G 280 

Cowhey,  Thomas 9^ 

Cox,  James  P.    .        .        ; 66,  248 

Crocker,  John  H 15,114,132,248,280 

Crocker,  Joseph  C. 62,  248 

Crockett,  Albert  W 24,  140,  171,  187,  248 

Crockett,  George  F 33,  171,  248 

Crosby,  Anthony 40,  41,  87 

Crowley,  Jeremiah      . 86,  283 

Curriea,  Charles  M 283 

Currier,  James  C. .        .         224 

Currier,  John  H 22,  248 

Curtis,  Samuel 283 

Cutting, William  H.  Jr 63,  248 

D. 

Dame,  Frank  0 86 

Daniels,  J.  B. 90 

Davie,  George 283 

Davis,  Charles  L. 202,  272 

Davis,  Edmund  W 27,  114,  140,  187,  201,  248,  280 

Davis,  James  L 59.  98,  202,  248 

Davis,  John  E 59,  202,  248 

Davis,  Loami  G .        .       .        46,  77,  202,  248 

Dawes,  Ambrose 15>  4°,  157,  248 

Dawes,  Richard  C 62,  250 

Dearborn,  Samuel  O. 56,  89,  223 


INDEX.  XV 

Pagb 

Deruiis,  Rev.  J.  S •        •        -223 

Deshon,  Francis •        .     40, 48,  250 

Dix,  Joseph  O 66,  250 

Dodge,  James  W 113,280 

Donalavy,  William 112,118,280 

Double,  Edmund  B 60,  250 

Dow,  Milo 283 

Drayton,  J.  Spencer 80,  241,  250 

Dyer,  John  A 283 

Dyer,  N.  Mayo         ...  15,  70.  80,  100,  228,  231,  336,  243,  250 

E. 

Earl,  William  H 49»  104,  250 

Eastman,  William  H 32,  187,  194,  250 

Edgerly,  Obadiah  S 87,  283 

Edgerly,  Peter 88,  283 

Edmands,  Bradford 1^4 

Edmonds,  Artemas  B 280 

Elliot,  George  W 187,  272 

Ellis,  Jacob  M 32,  243,  250 

Ellis,  Martin 89 

Ellis,  P.  Russell 88 

Emerson,  George 86,  222,  225 

Emerson,  George  2d.  .....       40,  41,  120,  225,  283,  287 

Emerson,  George  W.      .        .        .        .        .        .        .   40,41,56,112,280 

Emerson,  Isaac 222 

Emerson,  Isaac  Jr.    ^     .       40,  41,  43,  56,  73,  82,  85,  133,  222,  224,  225,  283 

Emerson,  James  G 60,  98,  250 

Emerson,  James  W 4Ij  48,  250 

Emerson,  Joseph  S. 98,  114,  250,  280 

Emerson,  R.  Watson 40,  41,  56,  86,  280 

Emery,  Joshua  Jr 114,  280 

Esty,  Charles  F .        .        .12 

Evans,  Thomas  C 40f  63,  250 

F. 

Fairbanks,  David 39,  122,  224 

Fairbanks,  John  W 4°.  4i.  43 

Fairbanks,  Joseph  A 86,112,280 

Fargo,  Charles  O .        .77,  250,  280 

Famsworth,  George  W n8,  280 


XVI  INDEX. 

Page. 

Farnsworth,  William  J 222,  223 

Farrell,  Michael •       .        .      66, 250 

Ferdinand,  Jasper  F. 91 

Fernald  James  H 280 

Fessenden,  George  F. •        .        .         283 

Finnegan,  Dennis 91,  280 

Finnegan,  Edward 114,  280 

Finnegan,  William 91,  280 

Fennerty,  Thomas 280 

Fisher,  George  W 22,  91,  252 

Fletcher,  George  M.  .        .        13,  43,  73,  82,  86,  133,  222,  223,  224,  225,  278 

Flint,  Rufus  H ,        .        .        .     222,  223 

Forsythe,  George  R 88 

Foss,  James  T 63,  252 

Foster,  Daniel  W.      .  • 85,  283 

Fountain,  Francis 90 

Freeman,  Leander  T. 113,280 

Freeman,  Thomas  .        .        .        .        • 91 

French,  Alonzo 280 

Fuller,  George  P 66,  252 

Fuller,  Henry  F 22,  139,  143,  252 

Fuller,  Lorin  L. 223 

Fuller,  William  A 104,114,118,243.252,280 

Fuller,  William  E. 82,  83,  222,  223,  224 

Furneaux,  Charles 88,  280 

G. 

Gallagher,  Richard 32,  252 

Gardner,  Elbridge 4i>  43,  88,  222,  223 

Gateley,  John 91,  283 

Gilman,  G.  W 90 

Gilman,  Tristram 283 

Gilmore,  William  M. 90,  280 

Gooch,  Hon.  Daniel  W.  .        .        .        .     44,  56,  85,  131,  223,  283,  292 

Gooch,  Mrs.  Daniel  W 134 

Goodwin,  Joseph .        .      113,  118,  280 

Gordon,  Curtis  S 113,280 

Gordon,  William  F 112,280 

Goss,  Allen  C.  56,  87,  283 

Goss,  Elbridge  H.           ....     40,  41,  88,  113,  155,  176,  280,  292 
Gould,  Albert  A 91.  283 


INDEX.  XV 11 

Page. 

Gould,  Levi  S 56,  85,  86,  225,  280 

Greeley,  William  P 283 

Green,  Aaron 92,  223,  224,  225 

Green,  Augustus 28,  140,  169,  252 

Green,  Elbridge      .        .        .  ■ 90,  222,  223,  225 

Greene,  Benjamin  F. 87,  280 

Greene,  Joseph  H. 86 

Greene,  Martin 18,  139,  252 

Grover,  Andrew  J 28,  76,  252,  280 

Grover,  George  W.  Jr 77,  1 14,  252,  280 

Grover,  John  C 25,  252 

Grover,  William  W 94,  252 

Grundy,  William 280 

H. 

Haley,  Reuben  T.       .        . 92,  284 

Hamblet,  James  Jr. 284 

Hammond,  George 77,104,114,254,280 

Hare,  Andrew 65,  254 

Hart,  Abner  B .        .        .62,  254 

Hart,  George 86,  284 

Harvey,  Franklin 104,  254 

Hawkins,  John .    280 

Hawkins,  Thomas 119,  284 

Haynes,  Joseph  W ■      .        .        .        .25,  254 

Hayward,  Daniel  E 280 

Hayward,  Jabez  G. 90,  284 

Harris  Augustine 280 

Heald,  S.  W 86 

Heath,  George  W 39,  4°,  120,  131,  284 

Hemmenway,  George 89,  284 

Hemmenway,  William 280 

Henderson,  John  H.  B. 114,134,280 

Heton,  John 60,  254 

Hicks,  Walter 284 

Higgins,  John  S 87,  131 

Hill,  David 284 

Hill,  William  L.         .        . .         280 

Hodges,  James  D 284 

Hoeffner,  Lewis  G 284 

Holbrook,  Joseph 119,223,284 

C 


XVIU  INDEX. 

Pack. 

Hollahan,  Lawrence 280 

HoLLis,  Henry  P. 52,  254 

Holmes,  Philip  B 56>  131 

Hopkins,  James  S. 280 

Horn,  James 284 

Houghton,  Samuel  S 85 

Howard,  Avery  B.  .       .       .        .       .        .       .        .        .        .33, 254 

Howard,  Caleb 89,  222,  223,  224 

Howard,  Caleb  G 280 

Howard,  James  R 40,  48,  140,  173,  254 

Howard,  Nathaniel 92 

Howard,  Otis 280 

Howe,  Francis  E 32,  254,  280 

Howes,  Jonathan  C. 112,280 

Howes,  Solomon  L. 91 

Hudson,  Jarvis  P 87,  118,  284 

Hurley,  John 91 

Hyde,  George  S 60,  254 

I. 

Ingalls,  Rev.  John  C. 136,  223 

Ingalls,  Samuel,  M.  D 243,  254 

Ireson,  Alonzo  D 60,  254 

Ireson,  David  A. 59,  254 

Irvine,  Fayette  J 281 

Isburgh,  Charles  H 40,  43,  55,  73,  83,  86,  133,  225,  284 

J. 

Jackson,  Jacob  F 21,  256 

Jackson,  William  H 49,  256 

Jackson,  William  P 15,  256,  281 

Jefferson,  Daniel 87,  284 

Jenkins,  Osmore 91 

Jones,  Asa  H. 89 

Jones,  Charles  S 40,  49,  256 

Jones,  Henry  H 14,  187,  256 

Jones,  J.  Wesley 36,  70,  80,  242 

Judkins,  Roland  C 59,  256 

JuNKiNS,  Edwin  W. 64,  256 

K. 

Kastner,  Charles 131 

Keating,  Thomas 281 

Keith,  Charles  E 89,  113,  281 


INDEX-  XIX 

Page. 

Kelley,  Farnsworth 284 

Kendall,  Edward  W. 22,  175,  243,  256 

Kendall,  Samuel  E 284 

Kent,  Elisha  V 284 

Keyes,  Silas 281 

KlLBY,  THEOPHILUS 15,  256 

King,  George  L. 15,  256 

Kimball,  Thomas  J 88,  284 

Kirmes,  Christopher 89,  284 

Knight,  Edwin  F 281 

Knights,  Edward  R. 87,  222,  224,  281 

Knowles,  Theodore  L.     . 40,41,113,281 

Krantz,  Frederick  W.  .        .        .        .        .        .        .46,  187, 203, 256 

Krantz,  William  F. 140,  272 

L. 

Lane,  Addison 90,  284 

Lamkin,  Guy 223 

Lamson,  William  A. 92,  284 

Larrabee,  Charles   .        . 87 

Leavitt,  Rufus 87,  284 

Leeds,  Samuel 21,  258 

Leighton,  William  F. 3, 258 

Leonard,  Henry  A 87,  281 

Lever,  Richard 74,  140,  258 

Linikin,  Benjamin 223 

Little,  Edmund  B 90,  284 

Littlefield,  Gushing  W 29,  258 

Littlefield,  Walter  Jr 86,  223,  284 

Littlehale,  Henry  A f 281 

Locke,  Simeon 86 

Long,  Thomas  A 85,  87 

Lord,  Samuel 281 

Loring,  Martin  B 91,  284 

Lunt,  George  G. 281 

Lyall,  David  S 96,  258,  281 

Lyman,  Henry  H 66,  258 

Lynch,  John  B 281 

Lynde,  Alonzo  V 86,  284 

Lynde,  Alvin 90 

Lynde,  Amos  W •'     60,  97,  258 


XX  INDEX. 

Page. 

Lynde,  Benjamin 41,  48,  140,  161,  258 

Lynde,  Charles  A "281 

Lynde,  Charles  B 60,  258 

Lynde,  Charles  P 90 

Lynde,  Daniel  A 281 

Lynde,  George 91 

Lynde,  George  W 23,  141,  161, 183,  243,  258 

Lynde,  James  O. 120,  281 

Lynde,  Leonard 88,  281 

Lynde,  Sherman 35,  260 

Lynde,  William  O. 87,  284  • 

M. 

Macey,  James 18,  260 

Macey,  John  S 23,  104,  175,  260 

Macey,  William  H 139,  272 

Macomber,  George,  M.D 87 

Magoon,  Sylvanus       .        .        . 119,  281 

Mansfield,  George  A 86,  225,  284 

Marcey,  J.  T 91 

Marshall,  James 64,  260 

Marshall,  Samuel 60,  260 

Martin,  Charles  H 202,  272 

Martin,  George  T.  ...        47,  70,  78,  138,  179,  202,  242,  260 

Martin,  Jeremiah 88,  222 

Martin,  Jeremiah  Jr. 105, 202,  260 

Martin,  William  H 41.  48,  202,  260 

McAllister,  Daniel  W 28,  260 

McAllister,  George  H 66,  260 

McCafferty,  Michael  A.      '. 56,  281 

McCoubry,  Thomas 284 

McDonald,  Angus 26,  260 

Mclntire,  Joseph 88,  284 

McKay,  Gurdon 9,  26,  35,  69,  243,  260 

McLaughlin,  Frank  M 105,  260 

•  McLaughlin,  George  W 64,  260,  278 

McLaughlin,  Hiram 278 

McLaughlin,  Hiram  Jr. 95,  260 

McLenathan,  Charles 281 

McMahan,  Philip .24, 260 

McNish,  Wickham  C 85 


INDEX.  XXI 

Page. 

Mendum,  Josiah  P 56,  88 

Merrick,  Theodore  B 225,  281 

Messenger,  Charles  A 89,  284 

Messenger,  Frank  A 40,  56,  86,  284 

Mitchell,  George 105, 260 

Moore,  Edward 91 

Morcomb,  Henry  P 281 

Morrison,  Charles  H 28,  47,  260 

Morrison,  Seth 9,  260 

Morse,  Andrew  J. .131,  132,209 

Morse,  George  J 16,  76,  8c,  138,  162,  236,  242,  260 

Morse,  Sidney  B.  2d 17,  139,  145,  162,  262 

Morse,  William .114,  281 

Morse,  William  F. 86,113,281 

Morton,  Daniel  0 88,  284 

Mosely,  Randolph  L 281 

Munn,  Lawrence  K •  »     •  90,  281 

Munn,  Thomas  J. 16,  262 

Munroe,  Rev.  William  H .         158,  223 

Murphy,  Walter .•       .        .        .  91 

Murray,  John .    281 

N. 

Nash,  Gilbert 225 

Nevens,  Edward  P. 223,  225 

Newhall,  Edward  B ,        .    88,  119,281 

Newhall,  George 87,  222,  224,  284 

Newhall,  Henry  B 56,  88,  281 

Newhall,  John 284 

Nichols,  George  G '  78,  97,  242,  262 

Nichols,  Smith  W.  Jr.         ....    36,  70,  80,  105,  107,  243,  262 

Norris,  Henry  A 42,43,56,86,223 

Norton,  Daniel  Jr 56,  85,  284 

Norton,  John  R. 281 

Noyes,  George  N 87,  223,  225 

NoYEs,  George  O 41,  48,  262 

Noyes,  Moses  A 90 

P. 

Page,  MosES  S 95,113,262,281,291 

Paine,  John  T 223 

Parker,  Edward 281 


XXU  INDEX. 

Pack. 

Parker,  Moses,  M.  D 40,  56,  87,  223,  225,  284 

Parsons,  Rev.  Wilson  R 223 

Patterson,  Alonso 89,  118,  281 

Paul,  William  F 118,281 

Peabody,  Francis 23,  28,  140,  175,  262 

Peabody,  Torrey ' 28,  262 

Peabody,  Torrey  Jr 25,  262 

Peck,  Oren  H 86,  114,  281 

Pemberton  Calvin 284 

Pemberton,  Lew^is  E 98,  264 

Perkins,  Albert  P 87,  284 

Perkins,  Horatio  N 88 

Perkins,  James  F. 70,  80,  107,  243,  264,  292 

Perkins,  John  Jr 64,118,264,284 

Phinney,  Erastus  O.,  M.D 223,  225 

Phinney,  Stephen  J.     .        .        .        .        .      , 222 

Phippen,  German  S.        .        .        .        .        ...        .        .        .  223 

Pierce,  Ansel  B 91,  281 

Pierce,  Robert  W .        .        .       88,  281 

Pierce,  William  L. 90 

Pike,  Jacob  F. 49,  264 

Pilling,  James  L 97,  264 

Pollock,  George  W 88,  281 

Poole,  William  F. 89,  126,  131,  220,  284 

Porter,  Lucius  L.  D 113.  281 

Pratt,  Daniel  S 35.  264 

Pratt,  Dexter 90,  281 

Prait,  Henry  W .        .        .96, 264 

Prentice,  Charles      .        .        .        .        •       .        .        .        .       67,  264 
Prentice,  Rev.  George        .        .        .        ...        .        .        .         281 

Prescott,  Horace 40.  5  ^>  264 

Prince,  Albert  G 25,  264 

Q- 

Quimby,  Rev.  George  W 43»  44 

QuiNN,  John  E 31.  172,  187,  264 

QuiNN,  John  H 3i»  264 

QuiNN,  Patrick       .        • 96.  264 

Quinn,  Thomas •        ....     282 

R. 

Rankin,  Frederick  W.' A.  Jr 88,113,282 

Richards,  Aaron  H 282 


INDEX.  XXIU 

Page. 

Richardson,  George  E 41,  49,  140,  177,  187,  264 

Richardson,  Hiram  D 9° 

Richardson,  John  P. 23,  264 

Richardson,  Lewis  H 90,113,282 

Richardson,  William  H 77,  266,  282 

Richmond,  Rev.  John  B 225 

Ripley,  Augustus 118,282 

Roach,  Benjamin 9° 

Robbins,  Charles 112,282 

Robbins,  Charles  G 285 

Roberts,  Charles  H 62,  266 

Roberts,  John  K 285 

Roberts,  Joseph  L 282 

Robinson,  Henry 9h  223 

Robinson,  Henry  J 91 

Robinson,  Luther 225 

Robinson,  Samuel  A. 118,282 

Robson,  John 89 

Rowe,  Ai 91 

RowELL,  Stephen  P. 26,  65,  266 

Russell,  Daniel 40,  41,  122,  285,  289 

s. 

Sales,  Ephraim 285 

Sanford,  Joseph  B 225,  282 

Sargent,  George 90 

Sargent,  George  B. >Sg 

Sargent,  George  C 87 

Sargent,  Wingate  P 85,  224,  285 

Sassard,  Augustus 16,  266 

Sears,  Elisha  F. 85,  282 

Seavey,  Leonard  C 33,  266 

Selee,  Rev.  Nathan  P 90,  225 

Sessions,  Rev.  Alexander  J 223 

Severance,  Sargent  F 87,  285 

Severy,  Solomon 89,  285 

Sewall,  John  S 56,  88,  285 

Sewall,  Hon.  Samuel  E.    .    ' 85,  131,  225,  292 

Sewall,  Stinson •      .    224 

Shannon,  Martin 29,  266 

Shelton,  Albert  F 16,  113,  266,  282 


XXIV  INDEX. 

Page, 

Shelton.  Charles  W 17,  150,  152,  266 

Shelton,  John *   .        .        .        .87,  223 

Shelton,  John  P 17.  40,  139,  154,  266 

Shelton,  Richard  H 113,282 

Shelton,  Stephen        .  _ 71,  88,  225,  290 

Shelton,  Stephen  W.       .        .        .        55.56,73.83,113,133,153,158,282 

Shelton,  Thomas 39.  67,  96,  266 

Shepard,  Charles  H 222 

Shepard,  Thomas        . 285 

Simonds,  Charles  H 223,  285 

SiMONDS,  Joseph  F. 17,  53,  236,  242,  266 

Simonds,  Joseph  R 24,  35,  70,  80,  144,  225,  242,  266 

Simonds,  Joseph  W 61,  96,  266 

Skinner,  Charles  E.  . 34,  266 

Skinner,  Glover 282 

Slocomb,  Henry  W 30,  268 

Slocum,  Asa 222 

Small,  Edward  A 70,  80,  108,  243,  268 

Small,  James 90 

Small,  James  M 282 

Smith,  John £8,  224 

Smith,  Rufus ....  39,  40,  44,  55,  56,  73,  83,  85,  133,  225,  282 

Smith,  Thomas 9,  33,  268 

Smith,  Wayland  R. 61,  268 

Snow,  Joel .        .        .      56,  91,  225 

Southwick,  E.  B.     .        .        .        .        . 91 

Spaulding,  Henry  H.     .        .        .      , .        .        .        .       .95,  268,  285 

Spinney,  William  K 282 

Sprague,  Alfred  W 89,  285 

Sprague,  Henry 222,  223 

Sprague,  Samuel  Jr. .       .       .19. 268 

Stantial,  George  C 89,  282 

Stantial,  Thomas  B .        .        .   34,  268,  282 

Steele,  Azel  E 90 

Stebbins,  Thaddeus  S .        .        .  50,268 

Stevens,  Charles  H 34,  243,  268 

Stevens,  Thomas  H 21,  139,  268 

Stevens,  Edgar  M.  .        .        .        .        .   •     .        .        .        .       86,  285 

Stevens, *.ev.  Henry  A 213,214,282 

Stilphen,  John  E. 33,  141.  181,  268 

Stone,  Calvin 90 


INDEX.  XXV 

Page. 

Stone,  George  F. 55.  ^6,  282 

Stone,  Henry 49,  76,  187,  268 

Stone,  William  H.  .        . 86,113,282 

Stratton,  William  D.  .        . 90,  282 

Sturtevant,  James  S 9° 

Summers,  Samuel  F. .        .  89 

Sumner,  Stephen 58, 268 

Sutton,  Joseph  P.  B,   .  282 

Sweetser,  Thomas  T.  .        . 60, 268 

T. 

Tainter,  George  A 17,  268,  282 

Talbot,  Rev.  Josiah  W 223 

Tay,  Aaron 282 

Taylor,  Fernando  C ,  56,87,118,285 

Taylor,  Franklin 222 

Taylor,  Shubael  L.  .        ... 222,  223 

Taylor,  Marcus  C 282 

Taylor,  William 282 

Terwillager,  Lyell  T 89,118,285 

Thompson,  John   .        . 114,118,272,282 

Thresher,  James  M 222 

Tourtellot,  Samuel  M.     .        .        . 89,  282 

Tower,  Benjamin .        .     41, 48, 268 

Tower,  John  W 88,  282 

Towner,  Levi  C. '        282 

Trask,  Albert 282 

Trott,  Andrew  P 86,113,282 

Trowbridge,  Henry  E. 225,  285 

Tucker,  William  L 41,  50,  268 

Turner,  Henry 285 

Tyler,  William  N. 95,  268 

u. 

Underwood,  Benjamin 89 

Upham,  Albert 282 

Upham,  Asa 223 

Upham,  Benjamin  R. 285 

Upham,  Charles  F 91,  282 

Upham,  Charles  H .,       .        .        .  60,  270 

Upham,  Freeman 222 


XXVI  INDEX. 

Pack. 

Upham,  Henry  W 97i  270 

Upham,  Joshua      . 223 

Upham,  Orne     . 285 

Upham,  Osgood  W.       ....        .        ...      112,  282,  286 

Upham,  Sylvanus       .        .        . 88,  282 

Upham,  Timothy    .        .        ...        .        .        .        .        .118,282 

V. 

Varney,  Cyrus    .        .        ....        .        ...        .         285 

Vaughn,  William  W.      .        .        .        .        .        .        .        .        .       90,  282 

Vial,  John 223 

Vinton,  Aaron  Jr 285 

Vinton,  Edwin  A 60,  96,  270 

Vinton,  Gray 96, 270, 285 

W. 

Waitt,  Charles  A .        .        .     113,282 

Waitt,  John  R .  95,  270 

Walker,  Benjamin  R 91 

Warren,  Ralph  .        .         ....        .        .        .        .        .   86,  285  ' 

Warren,  William    .        .        . 282 

Watson,  Frank 282 

Wells,  Charles  A. 45, 270 

Wells,  William  H 89,  282 

Wentworth,  Oliver  T.    . .92 

West,  John        .        .        .        .        .        .        ....        .         285 

Westgate,  Joseph  E 87 

Wheeler,  Gardner 86,118,285 

Wheeler,  George  G .        .       86,  285 

Wheeler,  Robert 92,  285 

White,  Alverse  L. 85 

White,  Charles  L. 4°,  45>  270 

White,  George  E 223 

Whitney,  Edward  H 17.  270 

Whowell,  John 285 

Whyte,  Oliver    .        . 86, 285 

Wilde,  Benjamin  F. 60,  141,  270 

Wilde,  Joseph  D 85,282 

Wilcox,  Daniel  W 43.  120,  282 

Wilkinson,  William  N 222 

Woodward,  David  R.     . 119.285 


INDEX,  XXVll 

Pagb. 

Woodward,  George  .        .        .        .= 9h  282 

Wyman,  George  W.    ,.,......      95.272 

Wyman,  Weston 95.  272 

Wyman,  William        . 9,  30,  272,  282 

Y. 

York,  Benjamin  F.  .        .       =. 79,  187,  202,  272 

York,  Josiah  R.  . 60,  98,  202,  272 

York,  William  B 60,  98,  202,  272 

Young,  Isaiah  A.    .        ^ 56,  89,  285 


II. 


INDEX  TO   REGIMENTS   AND   BATTERIES. 

Second  Regiment,  Infantry 18 

Fourth            "  " 9 

Fifth                «  «  .        .        ...        .        .        .    8,  58, 94 

Sixth               u  i,  ^        ^ g^ 

Eighth             "  "  .        .        . 95 

Eleventh         "  "  45 

Twelfth           "  "  .        .        . 19 

Thirteenth      "  "  14 

Fifteenth        "  " 74 

Sixteenth        "  "  21 

Seventeenth   "  " 22 

Eighteenth      "  "  25 

Twentieth       "  " 26 

Twenty-Second   Regiment,  Infantry 26 

Twenty-Third    •  "  " 29 

Twenty-Fourth  "  "               29 

Twenty-Sixth  "  " 30 

Thirtieth  "  " 30 

Thirty- Second  "  " 31 

Thirty-Third  "  «      . 46 

Thirty-Eighth  "  " 46 

Thirty-Ninth  "  " 49 

Forty-Second  "  " eg 

■Forty-Third  "  " 61 

Forty-Fourth  "  "           .......  61 


XXVIU  INDEX. 

Page. 

Forty-Fifth  Regiment,   Infantry             .......  63 

Forty-Eighth         "                "                      ......  65 

Fiftieth                  "                «                  65 

Fifty-Fourth          "                 « 78 

Fifty-Sixth              «                 "                   79 

Fifty-Ninth            "                "                      74 

Sixtieth                  "                "                  97 

Sixty-First             "                "                      98 

Seventh  Unattached  Co.,  Infantry 97 

First  Heavy  Artillery  Regiment 45 

Third      "            "              " 76 

Fourth    "            "              '« 78 

Second  Light  Battery 32 

Third          «          "            33 

Fourth        "          " 33 

Fifth           •*          " 34 

Ninth          "   ■       » 50 

Thirteenth  "          "            51 

First  Cavalry  Regiment          . 34 

Second    "            "              51 

Third       "            " 53 

Fifth         "            "             243 

Ninety-Ninth  New  York  Regiment,  Infantry 31 


III. 

INDEX  TO  BATTLES  AND  ENGAGEMENTS  MENTIONED  IN  THE  TEXT. 

Fort  Sumter,  April  12,  1861 i 

Attack  at  Baltimore,  April  19,  1861 8,  145 

Big  Bethel,  June  10,  1861 68 

First  Bull  Run,  July  21,  1861 9,  143 

Forts  St.  Philip  and  Jackson,  April  18-23,  1862        .        .        .38, 104,  107 

Fair  Oaks,  May  31,  June  i,  1862 •    .      21 

Gaines'  Farm,  June  27,  1862 27,  201 

Baton  Rouge,  Aug.  5,  1862 68,  181 

Cedar  Mountain,  Aug.  9,  1862 18,  68,  139 

Thoroughfare  Gap,  Aug.  28,  1862  .        ^ 151 

Groveton,  Aug.  29,  1862 146,  150,  162 

Second  Bull  Run,  Aug.  30,  1862    .         .        .16,  25,  28,  146,  151,  155,  163 


INDEX.  XXIX 

Page. 

Chantilly,  Sept.  i,  1862 146,  150,  162 

South  Mountain,  Sept.  14,  1862         . 152 

Antietam,  Sept.  17,  1862  .        .         15,  16,  17,  19,  68,  139,  149,  152,  154,  169 

Little  Washington,  Nov.  3,  1862 29 

Fredericksburg,  Dec.  13,  1862 169,  239 

Kinston,  Dec.  14,  1862 63,  64 

Galveston,  Jan.  i,  1863 58,  60,  196 

Sabine  Pass,  Jan.  21,  1863 I95 

Blount's  Mills,  April  9,  1863 ^84 

Bisland,  April  13,  1863 174.  I79 

Chancellorsville,  May  2-5,  1863 169 

Port  Hudson,  May  27 — ^July  9,  1863,  46,  48,  159,  161,  164,  174,  179, 181,  194 
Gettysburg,  July  i,  2,  3,  1863        .        .    15,  16,  45.  46,  51.  132,  169,  187,  203 

Batchelder's  Creek,  Feb.  I,  1864 25,171 

Glustee,  Feb.  20,  1864 189 

Red  River  Expedition,  Mafch  7  —  May  20,  1864      .        .        .     53,181,199 

Mansfield,  or  Sabine  Cross  Roads,  April  8,  1864 199 

Wilderness,  May  5,  6,  1864 76,  165,  166 

Spottsylvania,  May  10-12,  1864     .        .        .        .74,  76,  138,  140,  162,  166 

Bethesda  Church,  June  2,  3,  1864 28,  140,  169 

Cool  Arbor,  June  1-3,  1864 187 

Mine  Explosion,  July  30,  1864  . 79 

Mobile  Bay,  Aug.  5,  1864, loc,  102,  231 

Deep  Bottom,  Aug.  15,  1864 3° 

Opequan,  Sept.  19,  1864 53 

Cedar  Creek,  Oct.  19,  1864 48,  49,  177 

Fort  Fisher,  First  Attack,  Dec.  24,  25,  1864  .        .       104,  105,  106,  108 

Fort  Fisher,  Second  Attack,  Jan.  13,  14,  15,  1865      .        .  104,  106,  108 


I. 

I86I. 


By  our  altars,  pure  and  free  $ 
By  our  laws'  deep-rooted  tree  ; 
By  the  past's  dread  memory ; 
By  our  Washington  — 

By  our  common  kindred  tongue, 

By  our  hopes  —  bright,  buoyant,  young. 

By  the  tie  of  country  strong ; 

We  will  still  be  one. 

Samuel  Gilman. 

The  first  gun  that  spat  its  iron  insult  at  Fort  Sumter,  smote 
every  loyal  American  full  in  the  face. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 


On  the  twelfth  of  April,  1861,  the  bloody  hand  of  Trea- 
son was  lifted  against  our  Nationality,  by  the  bombard- 
ment of  "  Fort  Sumter,"  at  Charleston,  South  Carolina. 
The  "  Stars  and  Stripes,"  which  had  hitherto  waved  aloft 
so  gloriously,  and  so  triumphantly,  were  now  lowered  at 
the  impious  behests  of  Slavery,  and  were  trailing  in  the 
dust.  Great  was  the  surprise,  intense  the  interest,  and 
mighty  the  indignation  which  the  telegraphic  announce- 
ment of  the  fact  created  throughout  the  length  and  breadth 
of  our  land.  By  this  infamous  act  every  loyal  heart  was 
insulted  ;  and,  at  the  reception  of  the  news,  every  such 
heart  was  thrilled  and  stirred  to  its  inmost  recesses. 


2  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

By  the  insolent  assertion  of  Jefferson  Davis,  on  the  1 8th 
of  February,  1861,  —  when  the  Confederate  Government 
was  instituted  at  Montgomery,  Ala.,  two  weeks  previous 
to  the  inauguration  of  President  Lincoln,^  —  by  the  firing 
upon  the  "  Star  of  the  West "  when  on  its  errand  of 
mercy,  three  months  before  the  assault  on  "  Fort  Sum- 
ter," —  by  the  boast  of  the  Confederate  Secretary  of  War, 
L.  P.  Walker,  on  the  day  of  the  bombardment,^  —  by  the 
treasonable  and  rebellious  utterances  of  the  Southern 
press,^  —  by  the  seizure  of  arsenals,  forts  and  other  public 
property,  to  the  amount  of  many  millions  of  dollars,  —  by 
all  these  acts  it  became  painfully  evident  that  Slavery  had 
determined  to  break  up  this  Government,  or  commence  a 
devastating  civil  war. 

"The  treasonable  menaces,  the  Ordinances  of  Seces- 
sion, the  acts  of  violence  and  incipient  war,  which  followed 
the  choice  of  Presidential  Electors  in  i860,  and  culmi- 
nated into  flagrant  rebellion  upon  the  accession  of  Abra- 
ham Lincoln  to  the  Presidency,  had  attracted  the  anxious 
observation  of  mankind.  Never  in  the  history  of  civiliza- 
tion had  interests  so  manifold,  so  transcendent,  been 
involved  or  threatened  by  the  internal  disputes  of  any 
nation    or   people.     The   industry   of  thirty   millions    of 

*  "  The  day  of  compromise  is  past,  and  those  who  now  resist  us  shall 
smell  Southern  gunpowder  and  feel  Southern  steel." 

=*  "  No  man  can  tell  when  the  war  this  day  commenced  will  end ;  but  I  will 
prophecy  that  the  flag  which  now  flaunts  the  breeze  here,  will  float  over  the 
dome  of  the  old  Capitol  at  Washington  before  the  first  of  May.  Let  them 
try  Southern  chivalry  and  test  the  extent  of  Southern  resources,  and  it  may 
float  eventually  over  Faneuil  Hall  in  Boston." 

^  The  Richmond  Whig,  with  others,  reiterated  the  threats  of  the  Secession 
leaders,  saying,  "  From  the  mountain  tops  and  valleys  to  the  shore  of  the 
sea,  there  is  one  wild  shout  of  firm  resolve  to  capture  Washington  City  at 
all  and  every  human  effort." 


OPENING    OF    THE    REBELLION.  3 

human  beings,  bond  and  free,  the  peace,  happiness  and 
welfare  of  every  household  of  our  continental  Republic, 
the  business  of  the  busiest  and  richest  people  under  the 
sun,  the  strength  of  Republican  Government,  the  validity 
of  Democratic  ideas  expressed  in  civil  institutions,  the 
success  of  Liberty,  seemed  trembling  in  the  balance, 
where,  poised  against  each  other,  were  the  struggling 
hope  of  continued  peace,  and  the  dismal  presage  of  civil 
war.  With  the  fortunes  of  the  American  Union  were  in- 
volved, by  reason  of  the  intimate  complexity  of  all  human 
relations  in  the  social  and  political  organization  of  modern 
times,  the  prosperity,  if  not  the  fate  of  many  nations."  ^ 

By  the  attack  upon  the  heroic  band  of  patriots  under 
Major  Anderson,  at  "  Fort  Sumter,"  all  hope  of  a  peaceful 
settlement  of  the  issue  was  extinguished  ;  and,  by  its  fall 
the  mighty  energy  of  the  North  was  aroused. 

"  Like  some  old  organ  peal, 

Solemn  and  grand, 
The  anthem  of  Freedom 

Sweeps  through  the  land." 

One  purpose  seemed  to  spring  into  existence  instantly, 
and  animate  every  heart  —  a  determination  to  maintain 
our  national  existence  at  any  and  all  sacrifices.  "  Heart 
throbbed  to  heart,  lip  spoke  to  lip,  with  a  oneness  of  feel- 
ing that  seemed  like  a  Divine  inspiration," 

On  the  instant  we  saw  a  "noble  and  puissant  nation 
rousing  herself  like  a  strong  man  from  sleep,  and  shaking 
her  invincible  locks."  And,  when  on  the  15  th  of  April, 
Abraham  Lincoln,  President  of  the  United  States,  issued 

^  Oration  at  the  Dedication  of  the  "  Ladd  and  Whitney  Monument,"  by 
Gov.  Andrew,  at  I.owell,  June  17,  1865, 


4  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

his  Proclamation/  convening  an  extra  session  of  Congress, 
and  calling  upon  the  States  for  seventy-five  thousand 
troops  to  defend  the  capital  and  public  property,  the 
response  was  truly  wonderful  and  glorious. 

"  The  plough,  the  loom,  the  counting-house,  the  bar,  the 
pulpit,  all  the  avocations  of  ordinary  life  were  abandoned ; 
men  of  all  conditions  and  circumstances  flew  to  arms  in 
response  to  the  call  of  the  nation's  Chief  Magistrate."  ^ 

Munificent  offers  of  money  were  made  to  the  Govern- 
ment by  city  corporations,  banking  institutions  and  pri- 
vate citizens  all  over  the  land.  The  whole  loyal  North 
responded  in  the  spirit  of  "  Our  Country's  Call,"  by  Wil- 
liam Cullen  Bryant. 

Lay  down  the  axe,  fling  by  the  spade  : 

Leave  in  its  track  the  toiling  plough ; 
The  rifle  and  the  bayonet-blade 

For  arms  like  yours  were  fitter  now  ; 
And  let  the  hands  that  ply  the  pen 

Quit  the  light  task,  and  learn  to  wield 
The  horseman's  crooked  brand,  and  rein 

The  charger  on  the  battle-field. 

And,  thanks  to  the  foresight,  thoughtfulness  and  energy 
of  Governor  Andrew,  Massachusetts  was  ready  at  once  to 
send  forward  her  regiments  to  defend  the  flag  and  save 
Washington. 

The  first  call  upon  Massachusetts  for  troops  was  by  a 
telegram  from  Senator  Wilson,  April  15th,  requesting 
twenty  companies  of  militia  to  be  sent  immediately  to 
Washington,  and  there  mustered  into  service.      Official 

*  This  Proclamation  was  received  by  the  Confederate  conclave  assembled 
at  Montgomery,  Ala.,  with  "  derisive  laughter." 

*  History  of  the  Old  Sixth  Regiment  of  Massachusetts  Volunteers  during 
its  three  Campaigns  ;  by  John  W.  Hanson,  chaplain. 


THE    SIXTH    REGIMENT.  5 

requisition  from  the  Secretary  of  War  came  later  in  the 
day.  Governor  Andrew  at  once  issued  his  orders  to  the 
commanders  of  the  Third,  Fourth,  Fifth,  Sixth,  and  Eighth 
Regiments.  On  the  17th  the  Sixth  Regiment  was  on  its 
way,  and  on  and  before  nine  o'clock  of  the  next  Sunday, 
the  2 1st,  —  six  days  only  after  the  call  was  made,  —  the 
Governor  was  enabled  to  say  that  "  the  whole  number  of 
regiments  demanded  from  Massachusetts  were  already 
either  in  Washington,  or  in  Fortress  Monroe,  or  on  their 
way  to  the  defence  of  the  capital."  And  Edward  Everett, 
speaking  at  Roxbury  a  few  days  later,  said :  "  Wide  as  the 
summons  has  gone  forth,  it  has  been  obeyed  with  an 
alacrity  and  unanimity  that  knew  no  parallel  in  our  his- 
tory ;  and  the  volunteers  of  Massachusetts  have  been  the 
first  in  the  field." 

To  show  with  what  willing  obedience  and  cheerfulness 
our  troops  entered  the  service,  it  will  be  necessary  only  to 
specify  a  few  facts  connected  with  the  Sixth  Regiment, 
which  was  the  "  first  to  offer  its  services  ;  first  to  reach  its 
State's  capital ;  first  to  reach  the  nation's  capital ;  first  to 
inflict  suffering  on  traitors  ;  first  to  attest  its  sincerity 
with  its  blood." 

The  official  call  was  as  follows : 

COMMONWEALTH   OF  MASSACHUSETTS, 

ADJUTANT  general's  OFFICE,   BOSTON,   APRIL   15,    1861. 

Col.  jfones :  — 

Sir,  —  I  am  directed  by  his  Excellency  the  Commander-in- 
Chief,  to  order  you  to  muster  your  regiment  on  Boston  Com- 
mon, forthwith,  in  compliance  with  a  requisition  made  by  the 
President  of  the  United  States.  The  troops  are  to  go  to 
Washington. 

By  order  of  his  Excellency  the  Commander-in-Chief. 

William  Schouler,  Adjutant  General, 


O  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Telegrams  and  expresses  flew  to  all  parts  of  the  com- 
mand, notifying  members  of  the  regiment,  which  were 
scattered  over  four  different  counties,  —  Middlesex,  Essex, 
Suflblk,  and  Worcester,  —  and  in  thirty  or  more  cities  and 
towns.  Some  of  the  officers,  Colonel  Jones  among  them, 
rode  all  night  in  this  duty. 

"  Up  the  hill-side,  down  the  glen, 
Rouse  the  sleeping  citizen  : 
Summon  out  the  might  of  men  !  " 

"  The  *  Middlesex  villages  and  farms '  then  heard  the 
pounding  of  hoofs  and  the  alarum  cry  of  danger,  as  in  the 
olden  time  they  had  listened  to  the  midnight  ride  of  Paul 
Revere." 

Most  of  the  men  assembled  on  Boston  Common  early 
on  the  morning  of  the  i6th;  the  rest  within  a  few  hours 
after.  Captain  John  H.  Dike,^  of  the  Stoneham  Company, 
was  aroused  by  a  messenger  at  two  o'clock  on  the  morn- 
ing of  the  1 6th,  and  the  order  given  him.  After  reading 
it,  he  said,  "  Tell  the  Adjutant  General  that  I  shall  be  at 
the  State  House  with  my  full  command,  by  eleven  o'clock." 
Captain  Dike  was  there,  with  his  company  at  the  ap- 
pointed hour. 

Captain  Harrison  W.  Pratt,  of  Worcester,  received  the 
order  to  join  the  Sixth  Regiment,  with  his  company,  late 
in  the  afternoon  of  the  i6th,  and  was  in  Boston  with  his 
full  command  on  the  morning  of  the  1 7th. 

The  Major  of  the  Sixth — Benjamin  F.  Watson,  of  Law- 
rence —  had  but  two  hours'  notice  ;    but  he  locked  the 


'  Severely  wounded  in  the  thigh  during  the  passage  of  the  "  Sixth  "  through 
Baltimore. 


GOVERNOR    ANDREWS    ADDRESS.  / 

door  of  his  law  office,  leaving  a  large  docket  to  look  out 
for  itself,  and  important  business  interests,  and  for  four 
months  saw  and  knew  nothing  of  them. 

A  member  of  one  of  the  companies,  living  at  Concord, 
said,  "when  the  order  came  for  me  to  join  my  company, 
sir,  I  was  ploughing  in  the  same  field  in  Concord  where  my 
grandfather  was  ploughing  when  the  British  fired  on  the 
Massachusetts  men  at  Lexington.  He  did  not  wait  a 
minute ;  and  I  did  not,  sir." 

Many  other  interesting  instances  might  be  mentioned, 
not  only  of  this,  but  of  all  the  regiments  that  then  went 
forth,  where  lucrative  positions  and  professional  pursuits 
were  given  up  and  abandoned  cheerfully  by  our  citizens  in 
order  that  they  might  go  forth  and  defend  their  beloved 
country. 

The  Sixth  Regiment  left  Boston  on  the  17th,  previous 
to  which  it  was  drawn  up  in  front  of  the  State  House,  to 
receive  the  regimental  colors,  and  Governor  Andrew's 
parting  words. 

Soldiers,  summoned  suddenly,  without  a  moment  for  prepara- 
tion, we  have  done  all  that  lay  in  the  power  of  men  to  do,  —  all 
that  rested  in  the  power  of  your  State  Government  to  do,  —  to 
prepare  the  citizen  soldiers  of  Massachusetts  for  this  service. 
We  shall  follow  you  with  our  benedictions,  our  benefactions, 
and  prayers.  Those  whom  you  leave  behind  you  we  shall 
cherish  in  our  heart  of  hearts.  You  carry  with  you  our  utmost 
faith  and  confidence.  We  know  that  you  never  will  return  until 
you  can  bring  the  assurances  that  the  utmost  duty  has  been  per- 
formed, which  brave  and  patriotic  men  can  accomplish. 

This  flag,  sir,  take  and  bear  with  you.  It  will  be  an  emblem 
on  which  all  eyes  will  rest,  reminding  you  always  of  that  which 
you  are  bound  to  hold  most  dear. 


O  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

In  reply,  Col.  Jones  said: — 

Your  Excellency,  you  have  given  to  me  this  flag,  which  is  the 
emblem  of  all  that  stands  before  you.  It  represents  my  whole 
command ;  and,  so  help  me  God,  I  will  never  disgrace  it. 

Two  days  later,  —  on  the  ever  memorable  19th  of  April, 
—  the  telegraph  flashed  the  news  over  the  land  that  the 
Sixth  Massachusetts  Regiment  was  fighting  its  way 
through  the  streets  of  Baltimore  ;  that  four  men  had  been 
killed  and  many  more  wounded.  Still  deeper  was  the 
shock !  More  intense  the  feeling !  Massachusetts  men 
the  first  mart3n-s  to  this  terrible  Rebellion !  Massachu- 
setts blood  the  first  to  flow,  and  on  this  anniversary  of 
Concord's  opening  scene  in  days  of  yore !  The  excite- 
ment increased ;  business  was  neglected ;  our  Country's 
wrongs  and  our  Country's  danger  was  the  most  important 
and  all  absorbing  topic  of  conversation. 

Like  all  the  cities  and  towns  throughout  the  loyal  North, 
Melrose  realized  the  excitement  and  felt  the  danger  as 
thoroughly  as  any  of  them  ;  but  being  a  small  town,  and 
haying  no  military  organizations,  there  was  no  immediate 
stir  in  our  streets, -—no  sound  of  fife  and  drum,  —  nor  the 
hurry  and  bustle  consequent  upon  the  gathering  of  mili- 
tary companies,  that  was  experienced  in  larger  communi- 
ties ;  yet  its  citizens  were  aroused,  and  we  had  several 
patriotic  young  men  that  at  once  buckled  on  the  armor 
and  moved  to  the  scene  of  conflict. 

Our  neighboring  town.  South  Reading,  —  now  Wake- 
field—  possessed  a  militia  company,  commanded  by  Cap- 
tain John  W.  Locke,  and  which  belonged  to  the  Fifth  Mas- 
sachusetts Regiment,  Colonel  Samuel  C.  Lawrence ;  and 


OUR    THREE    MONTHS     MEN.  9 

into  this  company  —  B  —  most  of  our  men  that  went  into 
the  field  at  this  time  enhsted. 

They  were  as  follows  : 

Batchelder,  George  W.,^ 

McKay,  Gurdon,^ 

Smith,  Thomas,^ 

Wyman,  William.^ 

The  Fifth  Regiment  performed  its  duties  well,  and  was 
in  the  first  "Battle  of  Bull  Run,"  July  21,  1861,^  and  sus- 
tained itself  in  this  fiery  ordeal  with  great  credit.  It 
returned  to  Massachusetts  immediately  after  this  battle, 
and  was  mustered  out  of  the  service  on  the  31st  of  July. 
None  of  our  men  were  wounded. 

In  the  Fourth  Regiment,  Colonel  Abner  B.  Packard, 
Melrose  had  one  man,  in  Co.  F,  viz: 

Morrison,  Seth. 

This  Regiment  was  stationed  at  "  Fortress  Monroe " 
during  its  three  months'  service.  It  returned  to  Massa- 
chusetts, and  was  mustered  out  July  22d,  1861. 

The  whole  number  of  troops  sent  forward  by  Massachu- 
setts, under  this  demand  for  three  months'  men,  was  three 
thousand  seven  hundred  and  thirty-six  (3,736).®  They 
were  in  five  different  regiments  ;  and  of  these  regiments 
it  has  been  well  said  by  Adjutant  General  Schouler,  in  his 
Report  to  the  Governor,  for  1 86 1 :  — 

'  Afterwards  re-enlisted  in  the  Twenty- Second  Regiment,  see  chap.  III. 
'  Afterwards  commissioned  2d  Lieutenant  in  the  Twenty-Second  Regi- 
ment, see  chap.  III. 

■''  Afterwards  re-enh"sted  in  the  Fourth  Battery,  see  chap.  III. 

*  Afterwards  re-enlisted  in  the  Twenty-Fourth  Regiment,  see  chap.  III. 

*  Union  loss  in  this  battle  in  killed,  wounded  and  missing,  2,992.  Rebels 
lost  about  2,500. 

*  Of  this  number  old  Middlesex  County  bore  oif  the  palm,  sending  882 
privates  and  57  commissioned  officers. 


10  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

They  were  the'first  to  respond  to  the  call  of  the  President ; 
first  to  march  through  Baltimore  to  the  defence  of  the  capital ; 
the  first  to  shed  their  blood  for  the  maintenance  of  our  govern- 
ment ;  the  first  to  open  the  new  route  to  Washington  by  the  way 
of  Annapolis ;  the  first  to  land  on  the  soil  of  Virginia  and  hold 
possession  of  the  most  important  fortress  in  the  Union  ;  the  first 
to  make  the  voyage  of  the  Potomac  and  approach  the  Federal 
city  by  water,  as  they  had  been  the  first  to  reach  it  by  land. 
They  upheld  the  good  name  of  the  State  during  their  entire 
term  of  service,  as  well  by  their  good  conduct  and  gentlemanly 
bearing,  as  by  their  courage  and  devotion  to  duty  in  the  hour  of 
peril.  They  proved  the  sterling  worth  of  our  volunteer  militia. 
Their  record  is  one  which  will  ever  redound  to  the  honor  of 
Massachusetts,  and  will  be  prized  among  her  richest  historic 
treasures.  These  men  have  added  new  splendor  to  our  revolu- 
tionary annals  ;  and  the  brave  sons  who  were  shot  down  in  the 
streets  of  Baltimore  on  the  19th  of  April,  have  rendered  doubly 
sacred  the  day  when  the  greensward  of  Lexington  Common  was 
drenched  with  the  blood  of  their  fathers. 

Governor  Andrew  closes  his  address  to  the  extra  session 
of  the  Legislature,  which  was  convened  on  the  14th  of 
May,  in  the  following  words  :  — 

But  how  shall  I  record  the  great  and  sublime  uprising  of  the 
people,  devoting  themselves,  their  lives,  their  all  ?  No  creative 
art  has  ever  woven  into  song  a  story  more  tender  in  its  pathos, 
or  more  stirring  to  the  martial  blood,  than  the  scenes  just 
enacted,  passing  before  our  eyes  in  the  villages  and  towns  of  our 
dear  old  Commonwealth.  Henceforth  be  silent,  ye  cavillers  at 
New  England  thrift,  economy,  and  peaceful  toil !  Henceforth 
let  no  one  dare  accuse  our  Northern  sky,  our  icy  winters,  or  our  * 
granite  hills !  "  Oh,  what  a  glorious  morning !  "  was  the  exult- 
ing cry  of  Samuel  Adams,  as  he,  excluded  from  royal  grace, 
heard  the  sharp  musketry,  which,  on  the  dawn  of  the  19th  of 
April,  1775,  announced  the  beginning  of  the  war  of  Lidepen- 


GOVERNOR    ANDREW  S    ADDRESS.  I  I 

dence.  The  yeomanry  who  in  1775,  on  Lexington  Common, 
and  on  the  banks  of  Concord  River,  first  made  that  day  immor- 
tal in  our  annals,  have  found  their  lineal  representatives  in  the 
historic  regiment,  which,  on  the  19th  of  April,  186 1,  in  the  streets 
of  Baltimore,  baptized  our  flag  anew  in  heroic  blood,  when  Mas- 
sachusetts marched  once  more  "  in  the  sacred  cause  of  liberty 
and  the  rights  of  mankind." 


II. 
i86i. 

Three  Years'  Men. 

Northmen,  come  out ! 
Forth  unto  battle  with  storm  and  shout  1 
Freedom  calls  you  once  again, 
To  flag  and  fort  and  tented  plain ; 
Then  come  with  drum  and  trump  and  song, 
And  raise  the  war-cry  wild  and  strong : 

Northmen,  come  out ! 

Charles  Godfrey  Leland. 

Then,  in  the  name  of  God,  and  all  these  rights, 
Advance  your  standards,  draw  your  willing  swords. 

Richard  III. 


On  the  3d  of  May,  1861,  President  Lincoln  issued  his 
second  call  for  troops,  which  was  for  volunteers  to  serve 
for  a  period  of  three  years,  unless  sooner  discharged  ;  and 
on  the  same  day  our  Selectmen  issued  a  warrant,  calling  a 
Town  Meeting,  to  take  place  at  "  Concert  Hall,"  on  the 
evening  of  May  6th.  A  very  large  and  enthusiastic  meet- 
ing was  accordingly  held,  at  which  Mr.  Charles  F.  Esty 
was  chosen  Moderator,  and  the  following  votes  were  unan- 
imously passed. 

That  the  Town  of  Melrose  appropriate  the  sum  of  three 
thousand  dollars  (;^3,ooo)  for  the  relief  of  the  families  of 
the  citizens  of  Melrose,  now  absent  in  the  service  of  the 
United  States,  or  who  may  hereafter  volunteer  into  the 


OUR    FIRST    TOWN    MEETING.  13 

service  of  the  United  States,  or  the  State  of  Massachu- 
setts. Also  to  aid  volunteers  of  the  town  in  their  equip-: 
ment,  and  to  give  such  relief  in  the  premises  as  the  exi- 
gencies and  necessities  of  each  case  may  require. 

Also  that  above  all  other  appropriations  the  sum  of  fif- 
teen dollars  per  month  be  paid  to  those  persons  having 
families,  and  the  sum  of  ten  dollars  per  month  to  those 
who  are  single  men,  during  their  time  of  service  in  the 
war  now  pending. 

It  was  also  voted,  that  the  Town  Treasurer  be  author- 
ized to  borrow  such  sums  of  money  as  might  be  wanted 
from  time  to  time  to  cover  the  appropriations  then  made  ; 
and  that  the  Selectmen  —  Colonel  John  H.  Clark,  and 
Messrs.  William  B.  Burgess  and  George  M.  Fletcher, — 
constitute  a  Committee  to  superintend  the  disbursements 
of  the  money  thus  appropriated. 

A  stirring  and  patriotic  speech  was  made  by  the  Hon. 
N.  B.  Bryant,  ex-Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives 
of  New  Hampshire,  then  a  resident  of  Melrose. 

As  Melrose  raised  no  whole  company  for  any  regiment, 
pur  men,  as  they  enlisted,  selected  the  regiment  or  bat- 
tery in  which  they  preferred  to  serve  ;  consequently  they 
were  much  scattered,  and  entered  many  different  organi- 
zations before  the  war  was  ended. 

Our  earliest  enlistments  were  in  the  Second,  Twelfth 
and  Thirteenth  Massachusetts  Regiments  of  Infantry, 
mostly  in  the  latter  regiment,  which  was  commanded  by 
Colonel  Samuel  H.  Leonard,  of  Boston. 

The  nucleus  of  the  Thirteenth  Regiment  was  the  Fourth 
Battalion  of  Rifles,  into  which  our  men  enlisted  when  the 
President  issued  his  call  for  seventy-five  thousand  (75,000)' 
troops,  or  immediately  after  the  assault  upon  the  Sixth 
Regiment  in  Baltimore,  April   19th,  and  which  was  or- 


14  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

dered  to  Fort  Independence.  As  no  more  troops  for  a 
short  term  were  wanted,  the  Battalion  was  recruited  to  a 
three  years'  regiment.  On  a  Sunday  evening,  just  before 
the  regiment  left  for  Washington,  the  fourteen  soldiers 
belonging  to  Melrose  met  in  the  Baptist  Church,  when  the 
pastor,  Rev.  James  Cooper,  presented  to  each  one  a  Tes- 
tament, accompanied  by  an  address  and  prayer.  On  a  fly- 
leaf of  each  Testament  was  written,  besides  the  name,  the 
words  "  God  and  our  Country." 

The  roll  of  our  men  who  enlisted  in  the  Thirteenth 
Regiment  at  this  time,  —  and  later  as  recruits, — with 
items  of  their  military  history,  is  as  follows  : 

THIRTEENTH    REGIMENT.^ 
Co.  A. 

CORPORAL. 

JONES,  HENRY  H. 

Promoted  Corporal  April  i,  1863  ;  taken  prisoner  at  "Bat- 


'  The  Thirteenth  Regiment  Massachusetts  Volunteer  Militia  was  recruited 
at  Fort  Independence,  Boston  Harbor,  and  left  the  State  for  the  seat  of  war 
July  30,  1861.  It  was  in  arduous  and  faithful  service  for  three  years.  Most 
of  the  stirring  scenes  in  which  the  "  Army  of  the  Potomac  "  participated 
were  experienced  by  the  Thirteenth.  It  was  in  many  sharp  skirmishes,  such 
as  Bolivar,  Dam  No.  5,  etc.,  and  in  the  following  battles  :  Second  Bull  Run, 
South  Mountain,  Antietam,  Fredericksburg,  Mine  Run,  Chancellorsville, 
Gettysburg,  Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  North  Anna  River,  Laurel  Hill,  Cool 
Arbor,*  and  Siege  of  Petersburg. 


*  This  battle  is  given  in  Adjutant  General  Schouler's  Reports  as  both  Cold  Harbor  and 
Qofll  Harbor;  but  Mr.  Benson  J.  Lossing,  in  his  History  of  the  Civil  War,  calls  it  Cool 
Arbor,  and  gives  the  following  note  :  "  Cool  Arbor  derived  its  name  from  a  tavern,  at  a  de- 
lightful place  of  summer  resort  in  the  woods,  for  the  Richmond  people,  even  so  early  as  the 
^ime  of  the  Revolution.  The  derivation  of  the  name  determines  its  orthography.  It  has 
been  erroneously  spelled  Coal  Harbor  and  Cold  Harbor." 


THE    THIRTEENTH    REGIMENT.  1 5 

tie  of  Gettysburg,"  July  i,  1863;!  exchanged  May  i, 
1864;  mustered  out  of  the  service  with  the  regiment, 
Aug.  I,  1864. 

PRIVATES. 

BARRY,  WILLIAM  F.2 

Killed  at  "  Battle  of  Antietam,"  Sept.  17,  1862.' 

CROCKER,  JOHN  H. 

Discharged  Dec.  30,  1862,  for  disability. 

DAWES,  AMBROSE.* 

Wounded  in  head  at  "  Battle  of  Antietam,"  Sept.  17,  1862  ; 
mustered  out  with  the  regiment,  Aug.  i,  1864. 

DYER,  N.  MAYO. 
Discharged  April  15,  1862,  to  enter  the  navy.^ 

JACKSON,  WILLIAM  P.s 

Discharged  Jan.  22,  1863,  for  disability. 

KILBY,  THEOPHILUS. 

Discharged  July  20,  1862,  for  disability, 

KING,  GEORGE  L. 

Mustered  out  with  the  regiment,  Aug.  i,  1864. 

'  For  sketch  of  prison  experience,  see  chap.  XIV. 

*  Enlisted  July  28,   1862,  and  joined  the  regiment  Aug.  18,  while  on  the 
Rapid  Ann  River,  Va. 

•  For  obituary  notice,  see  "  Roll  of  Honor." 

National  loss,  at  this  battle,   I2y4.69;  2,010  killed,  9,416  wounded,  and 
1,043  missing.     Rebel  loss  about  21,500  in  killed,  wounded  and  prisoners. 

♦  Enlisted  Aug.  7,  1862,  and  joined  the  regiment  Sept  9,  at  Mechanics- 
ville,  Md. 

*  For  items  of  naval  history,  see  chap.  IX. 

•  Enlisted  July  28, 1862,  and  joined  the  regiment  Aug.  18,  on  the  Rapid  Ann 
River,  Va. 


l6  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

MORSE,  GEORGE  J. 

Wounded  in  hand  at  "  Second  Bull  Run  Battle,"  July  30, 
1862;  discharged  March  2,  1863,  to  become  2d  Lieu- 
tenant in  Second  Regiment,  U.  S.  Colored  Troops,  in 
"Department  of  the  Gulf."  1 

MUNN,  THOMAS  J. 

Taken  prisoner  at  "  Second  Bull  Run  Battle,"  July  30, 
1862  ;  paroled  on  the  field  of  battle  ;^  exchanged  in 
September  1 862 ;  taken  prisoner  at  "  Battle  of  Gettys- 
burg," July  I,  1863,  but  left  in  Gettysburg  because 
wounded  in  thigh  and  leg  ;  transferred  to  Veteran  Re- 
serve Corps,^  May  i,  1864;  mustered  out  July  16,  1864. 

SASSARD,  AUGUSTUS. 
Discharged  Nov.  14,  1862,  for  disability. 

SHELTON,  ALBERT  F. 

Wounded  in  right  arm  and  side  at  "Battle  of  Antietam," 
Sept.  17th  1862;  discharged  Dec.  23,  1862. 


*  Wounded  at  Siege  of  Port  Hudson,  July  5,  1863 ;  resigned  July  20, 
1863  ;  re-entered  the  service  in  the  Fifty-Ninth  Massachusetts  Regiment, 
see  chap.  VI. 

*  Held  seven  days  before  being  paroled  ;  all  the  food  he  had  during  five 
days  of  that  time  was  one  half  pint  of  corn  meal. 

^  The  Veteran  Reserve  Corps  was  organized  April  28,  1863,  and  consisted 
of  men  in  the  service  who  had  been  disabled  by  wounds  or  disease,  and  who 
had  been  discharged  on  account  of  wounds  or  other  disability  resulting  from 
military  service,  but  afterwards  re-enlisted.  Over  60,000  men  entered  this 
Corps,  and  May  31,  1865,  it  consisted  of  762  commissioned  officers  and  29,- 
852  enlisted  men.  It  escorted  thousands  of  prisoners,  convalescents,  recruits 
and  conscripts,  held  important  military  lines  and  positions,  aided  in  the  en- 
rolment and  draft,  or  guarded  depots  of  public  property. 


THE    THIRTEENTH    REGIMENT.  1 7 

SHELTON,  CHARLES  W.' 
Wounded  in  face  at  "  Battle  of  Antietam,"  Sept.  17,  1862  ; 
detailed  for  duty  in  Adjutant  General's  Office  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  Dec.  10,  1862  ;  transferred  as  Sergeant  to 
the  general  service  of  the  U.  S.  Army,  Dec.  i,  1863  ; 
discharged  April  i,  1864. 

SHELTON,  JOHN  P.2 
Killed  at  "Battle  of  Antietam,"  Sept.  17,  1862.^ 

SIMONDS,  JOSEPH  F. 
Discharged  July  5,  1862,  for  disability.'* 

TAINTER,  GEORGE  A. 
Wounded  in  right  arm  at  "Battle  of  Antietam,"  Sept.  17, 
1862;  discharged  Feb.  14,  1863. 

Co.  D. 

SERGEANT. 

WHITNEY,  EDWARD  H. 
Promoted  Corporal  Nov.  i,  1863;  Sergeant  Nov.  19,  1863; 
mustered  out  with  regiment,  Aug.  i,  1864. 

CORPORAL. 
MORSE,  SIDNEY  B.  2d. 
Promoted  Right  General  Guide,  with  rank  of  Corporal, 
July  5,  1862;  died  at  Finley  Hospital,  Washington,  D.  C, 
Sept.  16,  1862,  of  typhoid  fever.^ 


*  Enlisted  July  28,  1862,  and  joined  the  regiment  Aug.  18,  on  the  Rapid 
Ann  River,  Va. 

^  Enlisted  Aug.  7,  1862,  and  joined  the  regiment  Sept.  9,  at  Mechanics- 
ville,  Md. 

^  For  obituary  notice,  see  *'  Roll  of  Honor." 

*  Re-enlisted  in  the  Third  Cavalry  Regiment,  see  chap.  IV. 

*  For  obituary  notice,  see  "  Roll  of  Honor." 


1 8  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Co.  E. 

PRIVATE. 

MACEY,  JAMES. 

Mustered  out  with  the  regiment,  Aug.  i,  1864. 

We  had  but  one  man  in  each  of  the  Second  and  Twelfth 
Regiments,  as  follows  : 

SECOND    REGIMENT.i 
Co.  G. 

PRIVATE. 

GREENE,  MARTIN. 

Wounded  in  thigh  and  arm  at "  Battle  of  Cedar  Mountain,"  ^ 
Aug.  9,  1862;  was  left  at  Culpepper,  Va.,  Aug.  17,  1862,  in 
the  evacuation  of  that  place,  where  he  undoubtedly  died. 


^  The  Second  Massachusetts  Regiment  was  the  first  loyal  three  years  regiment 
raised  for  the  United  States  service,  and  was  mustered  in  May  11,  1861,  and 
left  the  State  July  8, 1861,  under  Colonel  George  H.  Gordon.  Its  experience 
was  arduous  and  varied,  and  has  been  well  told  by  its  talented  historian  and 
faithful  chaplain,  Rev.  A.  H.  Quint,  D.  D.  in  his  "  Record  of  the  Second 
Regiment."  The  following  are  the  principal  battles  in  which  it  was  engaged: 
Jackson,  Fort  Royal,  Winchester,  Cedar  Mountain,  Antietam,  Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville,  Gettysburg,  Resaca,  Kenesaw  Mountain,  Peach  Tree 
Creek,  Atlanta,  Raleigh,  and  Averysborough. 

«  Called  by  the  Confederates  "  Battle  of  Cedar  Run,"  and  "  Battle  of  South- 
west Mountain."  Nationals  lost  2,000  killed  and  wounded,  Confederates 
about  the  same. 


THE    TWELFTH    REGIMENT.  I9 

TWELFTH    REGIMENT.^ 
Co.  A. 

CORPORAL. 

SPRAGUE,  SAMUEL,  Jr. 

Promoted  Corporal  May  23,  1862;  severely  wounded  in 
ankle  at "  Battle  of  Antietam,"  Sept.  17,  1862;  discharged 
June  24,  1863. 


'  The  Twelfth  Massachusetts  was  raised  by  Fletcher  Webster,  who,  on 
the  day  after  our  boys  were  shot  down  in  the  streets  of  Baltimore,  published 
the  following  notice  in  the  Boston  papers  : 

Fellow-Citizens  :  I  have  been  assured  by  the  Executive  Department 
that  the  State  will  accept  at  once  an  additional  regiment  of  infantry.  I 
therefore  propose  to  meet  to-morrow  at  ten  o'clock  in  front  of  the  Merchants 
Exchange,  State  Street,  such  of  my  fellow-citizens  as  will  join  in  raising  this 
new  regiment     The  muster-roll  will  be  ready  to  be  signed  then  and  there. 

Respectfully,  Fletcher  Webster. 

The  meeting  was  held  accordingly,  Sunday,  April  21,  the  regiment  speedily 
raised  and  stationed  at  Fort  Warren,  Boston  Harbor.  It  left  the  State  July 
23,  1861,  and  was  commanded  by  Colonel  Webster  until  he  was  killed,  at 
Second  Bull  Run  Battle,  Aug.  30,  1862.  It  was  in  the  following  engage- 
ments :  Second  Bull  Run,  Antietam,  Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville,  Get- 
tysburg, Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  North  Anna  River,  Cool  Arbor,  and 
Petersburg. 


III. 


I86I. 

Three  Years'  Men. 

Oh,  Star-Spangled  Banner !  the  Flag  of  our  pride ! 
Though  trampled  by  traitors  and  basely  defied,' 
Fling  out  to  the  glad  winds  your  Red,  White,  and  Blue, 
For  the  heart  of  the  North-land  is  beating  for  you ! 
And  her  strong  arm  is  nerving  to  strike  with  a  will 
Till  the  foe  and  his  boastings  are  humbled  and  still  I 
Here's  welcome  to  wounding  and  combat  and  scars 
And  the  glory  of  death  —  for  the  Stripes  and  the  Stars ! 

Oh,  God  of  our  fathers  !  this  Banner  must  shine 
Where  battle  is  hottest,  in  warfare  divine  ! 
The  cannon  has  thundered,  the  bugle  has  blown, — 
We  fear  not  the  summons  —  we  fight  not  alone ! 
Oh,  lead  us,  till  wide  from  the  Gulf  to  the  Sea 
The  land  shall  be  sacred  to  Freedom  and  Thee ! 
With  love,  for  oppression  ;  with  blessing,  for  scars  — 
One  Country  —  one  Banner  —  the  Stripes  and  the  Stars  ! 

Edna  Dean  Proctor. 

Other  calls  for  volunteers  to  serve  for  three  years,  or 
during  the  war,  were  made  by  the  President  in  the  month 
of  July,^ — 1 86 1, —  and  our  citizens  continued  to  enlist 
during  that  and  the  succeeding  months  of  that  year,  in  the 
various  infantry  and  cavalry  regiments  then  forming  and 

'  The  total  number  of  men  called  for  in  the  May  and  July  Proclamations 
was  582,748;  the  number  obtained  was  714,231. 


THE    SIXTEENTH    REGIMENT.  21 

recruiting.     Melrose  was  represented  in  the  following  or- 
ganizations. 

SIXTEENTH    REGIMENT.^ 

Co.  A. 

PRIVATE. 

STEVENS,  THOMAS  H. 
Died  at  Boston,  March  26,  1 863,  of  chronic  diarrhoea. 

Co.  C. 

SERGEANT. 

LEEDS,  SAMUEL. 

Wounded  in  shoulder  at  "Battle  of  Fair  Oaks,"  June  i, 
1862;^  promoted  corporal  Jan.  10,  1863;  re-enlisted 
Dec.  24,  1863;  3  transferred  to  nth  Battalion  July  11, 
1864;  promoted  Sergeant  Nov.  i,  1864;  Color-Sergeant 
soon  after;  mustered  out,  by  reason  of  the  close  of  the 
war,  July  14,  1865. 

Co.  F. 

PRIVATE. 

JACKSON,  JACOB  F. 

Discharged  Nov.  17,  1861,  for  disability. 

*  The  Sixteenth  Massachusetts  left  the  State  Aug.  17, 1861.  The  lamented 
Arthur  B.  Fuller,  —  killed  at  the  "Battle  of  Fredericksburg,"  Dec.  12,  1862, 
—  was  its  first  chaplain.  The  following  are  its  principal  battles :  Fair 
Oaks,  Glendale,  Malvern  Hill,  Kettle  Run,  Chantilly,  Fredericksburg,  Chan- 
cellorsville,  Gettysburg,  Locust  Grove,  Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  North 
Anna  River,  Cool  Arbor,  and  Siege  of  Petersburg. 

''  Union  loss,  890  killed,  3,627  wounded  and  1,222  missing.  Total  5,739. 
Confederate  loss  5,897. 

■^  All  veteran  soldiers  enlisting,  or  re-enlisting  were  paid  a  United  States 
bounty,  —  in  addition  to  the  State  and  Town  bounties,  —  of  ^400. 


22  THE     MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

SEVENTEENTH    REGIMENT.^ 
Co.  A. 

PRIVATES. 

CURRIER,  JOHN  H. 

Discharged  Aug.  26,  1 862,  for  disability. 

FISHER,  GEORGE  W. 

Discharged  June  23,  1863,  for  disabihty, 

FULLER,  HENRY  F. 

Died  Oct.  6,  1861,  at  Baltimore,  Md.,  of  typhoid  fever.^. 

KENDALL,  EDWARD  AV.3 

Mustered  out  at  expiration  of  service,  Aug.  3,  1 864 ;  com- 
missioned 1st  Lieutenant,  by  brevet,  Sept.  2,  1864. 

'  The  Seventeenth  Massachusetts  was  recruited  at  "Camp  Schouler," 
Lynnfield,  and  left  the  State  Aug.  23,  1861.  It  was  stationed  near  Balti- 
more, Md.,  for  several  months,  and  then  sent  to  New  Berne,  N.  C,  and  served 
the  rest  of  its  time  in  the  "Department  of  North  Carolina."  It  was  in  the 
battles  of  Kinston,  Goldsboro',  Winton,  Batchelder's  Creek,  Weldon,  and 
Wise's  Forks.  Concerning  the  good  material  and  personal  bearing  of  the 
Seventeenth  Regiment,  in  which  Melrose  was  well  represented,  we  have  the 
following  testimony  of  Colonel  John  Quincy  Adams,  one  of  Governor  An- 
drew's personal  staff,  who  was  sent  into  the  "  Department  of  North  Caro- 
lina," in  September  1862,  to  examine  and  report  on  the  condition  of  our 
soldiers.  He  thus  speaks :  —  "I  examined  every  musket  personally,  and 
almost  every  equipment,  and  can  say,  with  perfect  satisfaction,  that  their 
condition,  in  almost  every  case,  was  admirable.  The  arms,  particularly, 
were  as  bright  as  when  they  were  issued.  The  regiment  was  then  drilled  by 
Lieutenant  Colonel  Fellows  in  various  evolutions,  concluding  with  the  drill 
as  skirmishers,  in  all  which  the  men  showed  careful  and  faithful  training  and 
most  commendable  proficiency." 

*  For  obituary  sketch,  see  "  Roll  of  Honor,'' 

'  Enlisted  July  28,  1862  ;  joined  the  regiment  at  New  Berne,  N.  C. 


THE    SEVENTEENTH    REGIMENT.  23 

LYNDE,  GEORGE  W. 
Mustered  out  at  expiration  of  service,  Aug.  3,  1864;  com- 
missioned 2d  Lieutenant,  by  brevet,  Dec.  31,  1864.1 
MACEY,  JOHN  S.2 
Discharged  Nov.  11,  1 862^  for  disability.^ 
PEABODY,    FRANCIS.* 
Re-enlisted  Jan.  4,  1864;  appointed  Orderly  for  Brigadier 
General  I.  N.  Palmer,  Feb.  15,  1864;  transferred  to  new 
organization  July  16,  1864;  died  at  New  Berne,  N.  C, 
Oct.  3,  1 864,  of  yellow  fever.^ 
Co.  D. 

PRIVATE. 

RICHARDSON,  JOHN  P. 
Re-enlisted  Jan.  5,  1864;  transferred  to  new  organization 
July   16,   1864;  mustered  out  of  service,  by  reason  of 
close  of  war,  July  11,  1865. 

Co.  I. 

LIEUTENANT. 

BOGLE,  ARCHIBALD. 
Went  out  as  2d  Lieutenant ;  promoted    ist  Lieutenant 
May  28,    1862;   discharged  May  20,   1863,  to  become 
Major  in  the  Thirty-Fifth  United  States  Colored  Troops, 
in  General  Wild's  Brigade.^ 

'  Died  Jan.  30,  1866,  of  consumption,  contracted  while  in  the  service;  for 
obituary  sketch,  see  "  Roll  of  Honor." 

*  Enlisted  July  28,  1862 ;  joined  the  regiment  at  New  Berne.  N.  C. 
'  Afterward  entered  the  navy ;  see  chap.  IX. 

*  Enlisted  in  the  Seventeenth  Regiment  Aug.  11,  1862;  joined  it  at  New 
Berne,  N.  C;  served  previously  in  the  Twenty-Second  Regiment;  see  page  28. 

*  For  obituary  sketch,  see  "  Roll  of  Honor." 

®  Previous  to  entering  the  Seventeenth,  served  nearly  two  months  in  the 
Second  Battalion  of  Infantry  in  the  Forts  of  Boston  Harbor.  For  further 
details  concerning  Major  Bogle,  see  Chap.  XIV. 


24  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

PRIVATE. 

McMAHAN,  PHILIP. 

Re-enlisted  Jan.  5,  1864;  transferred  to  new  organization, 
July  16,  1864;  mustered  out  July  11,  1865. 

Co.  K. 

CAPTAIN. 

SIMONDS,  JOSEPH  R. 
Mustered  out  at  expiration  of  service,  Aug.  3,  1864.^ 

PRIVATES. 

CROCKETT,  ALBERT  W. 
Re-enlisted  Jan.   5,   1864;   taken  prisoner  at  "Battle  of 

'  We  find  the  following  complimentary  notice  of  Captain  Simonds  in  a 
little  pamphlet  which  appeared  in  1864,  entitled  "  Soldiering  in  North  Caro- 
lina ;  being  the  experiences  of  a  '  Typo '  in  the  Pines,  Swamps,  Fields,  Sandy 
Roads,  Towns,  Cities,  and  among  the  Fleas,  Wood-ticks,  'Gray-backs,' 
Musquitoes,  Blue-tail  Flies,  Moccasin  Snakes,  Lizards,  Scorpions,  Rebels, 
and  other  Reptiles,  Pests  and  Vermin  of  the  *  Old  North  State.' "  It  was 
written  by  Thomas  Kirwan,  a  member  of  his  company.  "The  Captain 
Joseph  R.  Simonds,  was  a  thoroughly  patriotic  and  honest  man,  a  good 
soldier,  with  many  virtues,  and  a  few  faults  and  foibles,  (and  what  man  has 
not  these  to  a  greater  or  less  extent  ?)  He  took  great  pride  in  the  well-being 
and  efiiciency  of  his  company;  and  its  good  name,  and  the  praise  of  his 
superiors  for  cleanliness,  superiority  in  drill,  or  having  a  small  sick-list,  were 
to  him  matters  of  just  pride  and  gratulation,  —  and  frequently  after  a  credit- 
able performance  on  drill  or  parade,  he  would  snap  his  fingers  with  delight; 
and,  after  dismissal,  invite  them  all  to  his  quarters  for  a  treat.  He  was 
careful  about  the  quality  of  their  food,  and  whenever  he  could  (which  was 
not  often)  would  procure  such  articles  of  luxury  and  dietetic  change  as  would 
be  most  likely  to  promote  health.  He  was  uniformly  kind,  obliging  and 
considerate,  and  did  not  look  upon  his  men  as  mere  pieces  of  mechanism 
that  moved  when  he  pulled  the  wires.  He  considered  them  men,  —  socially 
his  equals,  though  in  reality  under  his  command,  and  to  a  certain  extent  at 
his  mercy.  He  rarely  abused  his  authority  —  never  maliciously;  and  though 
he  occasionally  did  injustice  to  some  deserving  men  —  it  was,  I  think,  more 
from  an  error  of  judgment  than  through  design." 


THE    EIGHTEENTH    REGIMENT.  25 

Batchelder's  Creek,"  Feb.  i,  1864;  died  at  "Anderson- 
ville"  Aug.  I,  1864.1 

HAYNES,  JOSEPH  W. 

Re-enlisted  Jan.  5,  1864;  transferred  to  new  organization 
July  16,  1864;  mustered  out,  close  of  war,  July  11, 
1865. 

PEABODY,  TORREY,  JR. 

Mustered  out  at  expiration  of  service,  Aug.  3,  1864. 

GROVER,  JOHN  C. 

Re-enlisted  Dec.  28,  1863  ;  transferred  to  new  organiza- 
tion, July  16,  1864 ;  mustered  out,  close  of  war,  July  1 1, 
1865. 

EIGHTEENTH    REGIMENT.^ 
Co.  E. 

PRIVATES. 

CARLISLE,  JOHN. 
Non-resident.^ 

PRINCE,  ALBERT  G. 

Wounded  in  neck  at  "  Second  Bull  Run  Battle,"  Aug. 
30,  1 862  ;  taken  prisoner,  held  five  days  and  paroled  ; 
discharged  Oct.  15,  1862. 


*  For  biographical  notice,  see  "  Roll  of  Honor." 

*  The  Eighteenth  Massachusetts  left  the  State  August  28,  1861,  and  t«ok 
part  in  the  following  engagements  :  Gaines'  Farm,  Second  Bull  Run,  Shep- 
pardstown,  Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville,  Gettysburg,  Rappahannock 
Station,  Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  Cool  Arbor,  Petersburg  and  Weldon 
Railroad. 

^  Rec- lit  enlisted  Aug.  26,  1863. 


26  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Co.   H. 

PRIVATE, 

ROWELL,  STEPHEN  P. 
Discharged  Jan.  ii,  1862,  for  disability.^ 

,  TWENTIETH     REGIMENT.^ 

Co.  A. 

PRIVATES, 

Mcdonald,  angus. 

Discharged  for  disabiHty, 

HINCKLEY,    GEORGE    H.  ; 

Non-resident,3 

TWENTY-SECOND     REGIMENT.'* 
Co.  G, 

LIEUTENANT. 

McKAY,    GURDON. 

Commissioned  2d  Lieutenant  Oct.  i,  1861  ;  dismissed  the 

service  Aug.  3,  1863,  for  being  absent  without  leave. 

'  Re-enlisted  in  Fiftieth  Massachusetts,  see  chap.  V. 

*  The  Twentieth  Massachusetts  left  the  State  Sept.  4,  1861,  and  was  in  the 
following  engagements  :  Ball's  Bluff,  West  Point,  Fair  Oaks,  Peach  Orchard, 
Savage's  Station,  Glendale,  Malvern  Hill,  Chantilly,  Antietam,  Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville,  Gettysburg,  Bristoe's  Station,  Mine  Run,  Wilder- 
ness, Po  River,  Spottsylvania,  Tolopotomy,  Cool  Arbor,  Petersburg,  Straw- 
berry Plains,  Deep  Bottom,  Ream's  Station,  Boydtown  Road,  Vaughn  Road 
and  Farmville. 

^Enlisted  Dec.  20,  1862  ;  for  form  of  certificate  taken  of  non-residents  at 
this  time  see  appendix  A.  . 

*  The  Twenty-Second  Massachusetts  was  recruited  at  Lynnfield,  and  left 
the  State  Oct.  8,  1861.  Its  first  colonel  was  Hon.  Henry  Wilson.  A  flag 
was  presented  to  this  regiment,  as  it  passed  through  Boston,  by  Hon.  Robert 
C.  Winthrop,  in  behalf  of  some  citizens,  and  another  in  New  York,  by  Hon. 
James  T.  Brady,  in  behalf  of  the  "  Sons  of  Massachusetts  "  resident  in  New 


THE    TWENTY-SECOND    REGIMENT.  1'J 

SERGEANT. 

BATCHELDER,  GEORGE  W. 
Promoted  Sergeant  Oct.  5,  1861  ;  taken  prisoner  at  "Bat- 
tle of  Gaines'  Farm,"  ^  June  27,  1862  ;  first  carried  to 
"  Libby  Prison,"  where  he  was  kept  fourteen  days,  and 
thence  to  "  Belle  Isle,"  where  he  suffered  the  usual 
severe  treatment  at  the  hands  of  the  rebels  for  sixty- 
four  days  ;  paroled  Oct.  18,  1862  ;  exchanged,  date  un- 
known ;  re-enlisted  Feb.  i,  1864  ;  transferred  to  Thirty- 
Second  Massachusetts  Regiment  Oct.  17,  1864.^ 

WAGONER. 

BARRON,    HENRY. 
Mustered  out  at  expiration  of  service,  Oct.  17,  1864. 

CORPORAL. 

DAVIS,    EDMUND    W. 
Promoted   Corporal   June    17,    1862;    taken   prisoner   at 
"Battle  of  Gaines'  Farm,"  June  27,  1862;  exchanged 
Aug.  5,   1862;  discharged  Oct.  20,   1862,  at  Philadel- 
phia,. Pa.,  for  disability,^ 

1  In  Adjutant  General  Schouler's  Reports  this  is  called  the  "  Battle  of 
Gaines'  Mills  ; "  in  Winch's  "  Chronicles  of  the  Great  Rebellion  "  it  is  called 
"  Gaines'  Mills "  and  "  Gaines'  Hill."  .  Lossing  calls  it  "  Gaines'  Farm." 
The  Confederates  calledit,  in  their  report,  the  "  Battle  of  the  Chickahom- 
iny."  The  national  loss  at  this  battle  was  about  8,000,  6,000  of  which  were 
killed  and  wounded.     Rebels  lost  5,000. 

*  See  Thirty-Second  Reginient,  page  31. 

^  Died  at  Melrose,  July  22,  1864. 

York.  This  was  a  gallant  regiment  and  experienced  hard  service.  It  was 
engaged  in  the  following  battles  :  Yorktown,  Mechanicsville,  Chickahominy, 
Malvern  Hill,  Gainesville,  Antietam,  Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville,  Get- 
tysburg, Rappahannock  Station,  Wilderness,  Laurel  Hill,  Spottsylvania, 
Jericho  Ford,  Little  River,  Tolopotoniy,  Bethesda  Church,  Shady  Grove 
Church  and  Siege  of  Petersburg.  \\ 


28  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

PRIVATES. 

BODWELL,    HENRY    A. 

Left  the  regiment  after  "  Second  Bull  Run  Battle,"  Aug. 
30,  1862,  and  enlisted  in  Co,  K,  Sixteenth  Regiment 
Virginia  Infantry,  Sept.  22,  1862,  and  served  until  it 
was  disbanded,  June  3,  1863.^ 

GREEN,  AUGUSTUS. 
Killed  at  "Battle  of  Bethesda  Church,"  June  3,  1864.2 

GROVER,    ANDREW    J. 
Discharged  Sept.  18,  1862,  for  disability.^ 

MORRISON,    CHARLES    H. 
Discharged  Jan.  i,  1862,  for  disabihty.^ 

McAllister,  daniel  w. 

Discharged  Oct.  9,  1862,  for  disability. 

PEABODY,  TORREY. 
Discharged  Nov.  9,  1862,  for  disability. 

PEABODY,  FRANCIS. 
Discharged  April  21,  1862,  for  disability.^ 


'  Afterwards  served  four  years  in  the  navy,  see  chap.  IX. 
'  For  obituary  notice,  see  "  Roll  of  Honor." 
^  Re-enlisted  in  Third  Heavy  Artillery,  see  chap.  VI. 
''  Re-enlisted  in  Thirty-Eighth  Regiment,  see  chap.  IV. 
•  Re-enlisted  in  Seventeenth  Regiment,  see  page  23. 


THE    TWENTY-THIRD    REGIMENT.  29 

TWENTY-THIRD     REGIMENT.^ 
Co.  K. 

PRIVATES. 

DONAGAN,    MAURICE. 
Deserted  June  ii,  1862;  non-resident. 

SHANNON,    MARTIN. 
Discharged  Oct.  27,  1862,  for  disability. 

TWENTY-FOURTH     REGIMENT.^ 
Co.  B. 

CORPORAL. 

BUFFUM,    ADELBERT    A. 
Mustered  out  at  expiration  of  service,  Sept.  24,  1864. 

Co.  C. 

PRIVATES. 

LITTLEFIELD,    CUSHING    W. 

Wounded  in  leg  at  Little  Washington,  N.  C,  Nov.  3,  1862  ; 
discharged  June  28,  1863. 


•  The  Twenty-Third  Massachusetts  left  the  State  Nov.  ii,  1861,  and  was 
in  the  following  engagements  :  Roanoke,  New  Berne,  Rawles'  Mills,  Kinston, 
Goldsboro',  Wilcox  Bridge,  Winton,  Smithfield,  Heckman's  Farm,  Arrow- 
field  Church,  Drury's  Bluff,  Cool  Arbor,  and  other  engagements  before 
Petersburg,  and  Kinston  2d. 

*  The  Twenty-Fourth  Massachusetts  left  the  State  Dec.  9,  1861,  and  took 
part  in  the  following  battles  :  Roanoke  Island,  Kinston,  Whitehall,  Golds- 
boro', Tranter's  Creek,  New  Berne,  James  Island,  Morris  Island,  Fort  Wag- 
ner, Green  Valley,  Drury's  Bluff,  Richmond  and  Petersburg  Railroad,  Weir 
Bottom  Church,  Deep  Bottom,  Deep  Run,  Fussell's  Mills,  Siege  of  Peters- 
burg, Four  Mile  Run  Church  and  Darby  Town  Road. 


39  THE    MELROSE     MEMORIAL. 

WYMAN,    WILLIAM. 

Re-enlisted  Jan.  4,  1864;  wounded  in  hand  —  lost  two  fin- 
gers—  in  "Battle  of  Deep  Bottom,"    Aug.    15,   1864 
mustered  out,  at  close  of  war,  July  10,  1865. 

TWENTY-SIXTH     REGIMENT.^ 
Co.  A. 

PRIVATE. 

STARBUCK,    GEORGE    M. 

Non-resident. 

THIRTIETH     REGIMENT.^ 
Co.  B. 

PRIVATE. 

LANE,    FRANCIS    W. 

Non-resident. 

Co.  E. 

PRIVATE. 

SLOCOMB,    HENRY    W. 
Re-enlisted  Jan.  i,  1864;  mustered  out  July  10,  1866. 

'  The  Twenty-Sixth  Massachusetts  left  the  State  Nov.  21,  1861.  Its  colo- 
nel was  Edward  F.  Jones,  of  Baltimore  fame.  It  had  many  of  the  men  that 
belonged  to  the  old  Sixth  Regiment,  and  that  went  through  Baltimore,  April 
19,  1861.  It  was  in  the  "Department  of  the  .Gulf"  the  greater  part  of  its 
time  of  service.  Was  in  battles  of  Winchester,  Cedar  Creek  and  Fisher's 
Hill,  under  General  Sheridan. 

*  The  Thirtieth  Massachusetts  was  mustered  in  Jan.  4, 1862,  and  took  part 
in  the  following  engagements  :  Vicksburg,  Baton  Rouge,  Plains  Stores,  Port 
Hudson,  Cox's  Plantation,  Donaldsonville  and  Winchester,  Cedar  Creek 
and  P'ishcr's  Hill  under  Sheridan.  It  was  the  last  Massachusetts  Regiment 
in  United  States  service,  being  mustered  out  July  lo,  1866. 


THIRTY-SECOND    REGIMENT.  3 1 

THIRTY-SECOND     REGIMENT.i 
Co.  C. 

LIEUTENANT. 

BATCHELDER,    GEORGE    W. 
Transferred  as  Sergeant  from  Twenty-Second  Regiment, 
Oct.  17,  1864;  promoted  2d  Lieutenant  Dec.  4,  1864; 
1st  Lieutenant,  April  i,  1865  ;  discharged,  by  reason  of 
close  of  war,  June  29,  1865. 

PRIVATE. 

HANIGAN,    JOHN. 
Mustered  out  Oct.  28,  1864;  non-resident. 

Co.  A. 

PRIVATE. 

QUINN,    JOHN    E. 
Discharged  Dec.  4,  1862,  for  disability. 

NINETY-NINTH    NEW   YORK   REGIMENT.^ 
Co.  B. 

PRIVATE. 

QUINN,    JOHN    H. 
Transferred  from  Co.  K ;  mustered  out  Feb.  30,  1865. 


^  The  Thirty- Second  Massachusetts  was  mustered  into  service  Dec.  i8, 
1861.  It  was  in  the  following  battles  :  Malvern  Hill,  Gainesville,  Second 
Bull  Run,  Chantilly,  Antietam,  Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville,  Gettys- 
burg, Rappahannock  Station,  Mine  Run,  Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  North 
Anna  River,  Tolopotomy,  Bethesda  Church,  Petersburg,  Weldon  Railroad, 
Vaughn  Road,  Dabney's  Mills,  Boydtown  Road  and  White  Oak  Road. 

^  Known  as  the  "  Union  Coast  Guard."  Massachusetts  did  not  receive 
credit  for  the  three  hundred  men  she  had  in  it.  Melrose  paid  State  aid 
to  the  families  of  Quinn  and  Gallagher, 


3?  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Co.   G. 

PRIVATE. 

GALLAGHER,    RICHARD. 

Mustered  out  Feb.  30,  1865. 

SECOND     BATTERY.i 

LIEUTENANT. 

ELLIS,    JACOB    M.2 

Promoted  Corporal  Jan.  i,  1862  ;  re-enlisted  Feb.  15, 1864  ; 
promoted  Sergeant  Aug.  i,  1864;  2d  Lieutenant,  Jan. 
8,  1865  ;  discharged,  close  of  war,  Aug.  11,  1865. 

SERGEANT. 

HOWE,    FRANCIS    E. 

Promoted  Corporal  Aug.  i,  1861  ;  Sergeant,  Jan.  i,  1862  ; 
discharged  Jan.  8,  1863,  for  disability.  * 

CORPORAL. 

ANDREWS,    EDWIN    A.2 
Mustered  out  at  expiration  of  service,  Aug.  16,  1864. 

PRIVATES. 

EASTMAN,  WILLIAM  H. 
Taken  prisoner  at  Bayou  Boeuf,  June  19,  1863;  paroled 


^  The  Second  Massachusetts  Battery — Nims'  —  left  the  State  Aug.  8, 
1861,  ;ind  was  in  the  following  engagements  :  Vicksburg,  Baton  Rouge,  Port 
Hudson,  Sabine  Cross  Roads,  Brashear  City,  Jackson,  Claiborne,  Ala.,  and 
Daniels'  Plantation. 

*  Credited  to  Boston  at  Adjutant  General's  Office,  but  citizen  of  Melrose 
at  time  of  enlistment  and  since  the  war.     Melrose  paid  State  aid. 


THE    FOURTH    BATTERY.  33 

July  3,  1863;  exchanged  Nov.  20,  1863;  mustered  out, 
Aug.  16,  1864.1 

SEAVEY,  LEONARD  C. 
Mustered  out  at  expiration  of  service,  Aug.  16,  1864. 

STILPHEN,  JOHN  E. 
Mustered  out  at  expiration  of  service,  Aug.  16,  1864.^ 

THIRD    BATTERY. 3 

CORPORAL. 

•     HOWARD,  AVERY  B. 
Promoted  Corporal  May  14,   1862;  mustered  out,  expira- 
tion of  service,  Sept.  16,  1864. 

PRIVATE. 

CROCKETT,  GEORGE  F. 
Discharged  Jan.  2,  1863,  for  disability."* 

FOURTH    BATTERY.5 

PRIVATE. 

SMITH,  THOMAS. 
Re-enlisted  Jan.  2,  1864;  mustered  out,  close  of  war,  Oct. 
14,  1865. 

'  For  sketch  of  prison  experience,  see  chap.  XIV. 
'  Died  June  25,  1865;  for  biographical  notice,  see  "  Roll  of  Honor." 
'  The  Third  Massachusetts  Battery  —  Follett's,  afterwards  Martin's  — 
left  the  State  Oct.  7,  1861.  It  took  part  in  the  following  engagements  : 
Siege  of  Yorktown,  Hanover  Court  House,  Mechanicsville,  Gaines'  Farm, 
Malvern  Hill,  Antietam,  Sheppardstown,  Leestown,  Fredericksburg,  Chan- 
cellorsville,  Middlebury,  Gettysburg,  Mine  Run,  Wilderness,  Laurel  Hill, 
Spottsylvania,  North  Anna  River,  Bethesda  Church,  Cool  Arbor,  Peters- 
burg, Six  Mile  Station,  and  Petersburg  and  Weldon  Railroad. 

*  Afterwards  re-enlisted  in  same  battery  in  the  quota  of  Mansfield. 

*  The  Fourth  Massachusetts  Battery  —  Manning's  —  left  the  State  Nov. 
20,  1861,  and  was  in  the  following  engagements  :  Pontichoula,  Baton  Rouge, 
Bonfouca,  Bisland,  Gotten,   Port   Hudson,  Vermilion,  and  Siege  of  Mobile. 

5 


34  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

FIFTH    BATTERY. 1 

ARTIFICER. 

STANTIAL,  THOMAS  B. 

Discharged  July  25,  1862,  by  reason  of  the  aboUshment  of 
the  office. 

PRIVATE. 

SKINNER,  CHARLES  E. 
Discharged  Oct.  9,  1863,  for  disability. 

FIRST    CAVALRY.2 
Co.  G. 

LIEUTENANT. 

STEVENS,  CHARLES  H. 

Entered  the  service  as  private  in  Co.  B;  promoted  ist 
Sergeant  Co.  G,  March  8,  1 863  ;  2d  Lieutenant  Jan.  2, 
1 864 ;  acted  as  such  during  remainder  of  service,  but 
not  mustered  in ;  wounded  through  left  hand  at  Deep 
Bottom,  Va.,  July  28,  1864;  mustered  out  as  Sergeant, 
Sept.  16,  1864. 


'  The  Fifth  Massachusetts  Battery  —  Eppendort's,  afterwards  Phillips' — 
left  the  State  Dec.  25,  1861.  It  took  part  in  the  following  battles  :  York- 
town,  Hanover  Court  House,  Mechanicsville,  Gaines'  Farm,  Malvern  Hill, 
Second  Bull  Run,  Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville,  Gettysburg,  Rappahan- 
nock Station,  Mine  Run,  Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  North  Anna  River, 
Bethesda  Church,  Petersburg,  Weldon  Railroad,  and  Hatcher's  Run. 

'  The  First  Massachusetts  Cavalry,  —  "the  eyes  of  the  army,"  —  was  mus- 
tered in  Nov.  I,  1861,  and  was  in  the  following  engagements  :  Poolesville, 
South  Mountain,  Antietam,  Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville,  Brandy  Sta- 
tion, Aldie,  Upperville,  Gettysburg,  Williamsport,  Culpepper,  Auburn, 
Todd's  Tavern,  Fortifications  of  Richmond,  Vaughn  Road,  St.  Mary's 
Church,  Cool  Arbor,  and  Bellefield. 


FIRST    CAVALRY.  35 

CORPORAL. 

LYNDE,  SHERMAN. 

Promoted  Corporal  Feb.  i,  1864;  mustered  out,  expiration 
of  service,  Oct.  31,  1864. 

PRIVATES. 

CHANDLER,  ROSWELL  W. 
Discharged  Oct.  31,  1862,  for  disability. 
PRATT,  DANIEL   S.i 
Mustered  out  Oct.  31,  1864. 

At  the  end  of  the  year  1861,  Massachusetts  had  fur- 
nished for  the  war  forty-one  thousand  two  hundred  and 
ninety-four  (41,294)  men  ;  of  which  number  three  thou- 
sand seven  hundred  and  thirty-six  (3,736)  were  for  the 
three  months'  service,  one  hundred  and  forty-four  (144)  — 
one  Battery  —  for  six  months'  service,  seven  thousand  six 
hundred  and  fifty-eight  (7,658)  in  the  navy,  and  the  bal- 
ance, twenty-nine  thousand  seven  hundred  and  fifty-six 
(29,756)  for  the  three  years'  service. 

Melrose  had  furnished  at  this  same  time  eighty-one 
(81)  men;  of  which  number  five  (5)  were  for  the  three 
months'  service,  three  (3)  were  in  the  navy,  and  the  balance, 
seventy-three  (73),  for  the  three  years'  service.  Three  of 
those  in  the  three  years'  service  were  commissioned  officers, 
viz :  Second  Lieutenant  Archibald  Bogle,  of  the  Seven- 
teenth Regiment;  Second  Lieutenant  Gurdon  McKay,  of 
the  Twenty-Second  Regiment ;  and  Captain  Joseph  R, 
Simonds,  of  the  Seventeenth  Regiment.     Also,  J.  Wesley 

*  Served  three  months  in  1861,  in  Co.  F,  Eighth  Regiment,  from  Lynn. 


36  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL* 

Jones,  First  Lieutenant  of  the  Twelfth  U.  S.  Infantry, 
and  Smith  W.  Nichols,  Jr.,  Midshipman  in  U.  S.  Navy. 

The  position  of  Massachusetts  at  this  time  is  well  rep- 
resented by  the  following  extract : 

Massachusetts  regiments  and  batteries  were  in  front  of  Wash- 
ington and  Fortress  Monroe  ;  five  regiments  were  at  Annapolis, 
ready  to  embark  in  General  Burnside's  expedition  against  North 
Carolina.  One  regiment  and  a  battery  were  at  Ship  Island  in 
Mississippi,  waiting  orders  from  General  Butler.  Gunboats, 
officered  and  manned  by  Massachusetts  men,  kept  watch  and 
ward  on  the  Southern  coast,  or  carried  the  flag  upon  far  off  seas. 
Officers  remained  here  on  recruiting  service  ;  and  enlistments 
were  made  to  complete  new  regiments,  and  to  fill  the  depleted 
ranks  of  those  at  the  seat  of  war.  AVounded  officers  and  sol- 
diers were  at  home  on  furlough  or  discharged  for  disability- 
The  "  empty  sleeve  "  was  seen  daily  in  our  streets  ;  and  maimed 
veterans  hobbled  up  the  steps  of  the  State  House  to  show  their 
honorable  discharge  papers,  and  tell  in  modest  words,  of  their 
toils  and  dangers. 


IV. 

i862. 


Great  God  !  to  whom  our  nation's  woes, 
Our  dire  distress,  our  angry  foes, 
In  all  their  awful  gloom  are  known, 
We  bow  to  Thee  and  Thee  alone. 

We  trust  to  Thy  protecting  power 
In  this,  our  country's  saddest  hour. 
And  pray  that  Thou  wilt  spread  Thy  shield 
Above  us  in  the  camp  and  field. 

*         ***** 

'Till,  guided  by  Thy  glorious  hand. 
Those  armies  reunite  the  land, 
And  North  and  South  alike  shall  raise 
To  God  their  peaceful  hymns  of  praise. 

J^ark  Benjamin. 


On  the  first  day  of  July,  1 862,  President  Lincoln  issued 
his  third  Proclamation,  calling  for  troops,  the  Governors 
of  eighteen  loyal  States  having  joined  in  an  address  to 
him,  suggesting  the  necessity  of  so  doing.  This  call  was 
for  three  hundred  thousand  (300,000)  volunteers,  to  serve 
for  three  years,  or  until  the  end  of  the  war.  These  were 
to  form  new  regiments  and  batteries,  and  fill  up  the  de- 
pleted ranks  of  those  then  in  the  service. 


38  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

The  nation  had  passed  through  a  year  of  successes  and 
reverses,  and  this  new  call  came  just  at  the  time  of  the 
disheartening  result  of  the  campaign  before  Richmond, 
when  Gen.  McClellan  and  his  army  were  falling  back  to 
Harrison's  Landing,  on  the  James  River. 

The  encouraging  features  at  this  juncture  of  affairs  were 
that  Gen.  Banks  and  his  army  still  held  possession  of  the 
upper  waters  of  the  Potomac.  Gen.  Burnside  had  cap- 
tured New  Berne,  and  other  places  in  North  Carolina, 
which  were  strongly  held.  Admiral  Farragut,  with  his 
"jolly  tars,"  had  passed  and  taken  Forts  Jackson  and  St. 
Philip,  thus  opening  the  Mississippi  River,  and  Gen.  But- 
ler occupied  New  Orleans  and  other  points  in  Louisiana  ; 
and,  notwithstanding  the  failure  of  this  attempt  to  take  the 
Confederate  capital,  long  wished  for  and  long  expectea, 
the  loyal  North 

"  bated  no  jot  of  heart  or  hope  "; 

and  never  was  the  determination  stronger  than  now  to  put 
down  this  nefarious  Rebellion. 

Brig.-Gen.  William  Schouler,  —  Adjutant-General  of  the 
State  during  the  war,  —  in  his  "  History  of  Massachusetts 
in  the  Civil  War,"  speaks  as  follows  of  the  situation  at  this 
time,  and  of  the  unremitted  energy  displayed  by  our  great 
war  Governor,  John  A.  Andrew : 

We  well  remember  one  night,  when  the  news  of  McClellan's 
retreat  reached  Boston  ;  the  papers  were  filled  with  accounts  of 
the  terrible  disaster ;  the  names  of  the  dead  and  wounded  of 
Massachusetts'  bravest  and  best  were  arrayed  in  the  ghastly 
bulletins  transmitted  from  the  front. 

That  very  night  the  Governor  said  :  "  We  must  issue  a  new 
order,  call  for  more  men,  incite  recruiting,  inspire  hope,  dispel 


THIRD  CALL  FOR  TROOPS.  39 

gloom  ;  this  is  the  time  which  requires  boldness,  firmness,  and 
every  personal  sacrifice." 

The  order  was  issued ;  it  aroused  the  latent  energies  of  the 
people ;  young  men,  who  had  not  before  thought  of  volunteer- 
ing, offered  themselves  as  recruits,  eager  to  press  forward  to  fill 
the  gaps  which  disaster  and  death  had  made  in  our  ranks. 

The  proportion  of  the  three  hundred  thousand  (300,000) 
men  assigned  to  Massachusetts  was  fifteen  thousand  (15,- 
000).  The  annual  returns  of  the  assessors  of  the  several 
towns  and  cities,  of  the  men  liable  to  perform  military 
duty,  were  taken  as  a  basis  on  which  to  arrange  the  differ- 
ent quotas  ;  and  as  soon  as  the  figures  could  be  properly 
adjusted,  an  order  was  issued  by  Adjutant-General  Schou- 
ler,  giving  the  quota  of  each  city  and  town  in  the  State. 

The  quota  of  Melrose  was  found  to  be  thirty-seven  (37) 
men.  On  the  evening  of  July  14th,  immediately  after  the 
promulgation  of  this  order,  a  war  meeting  was  held  at 
Lyceum  Hall,  at  which  Colonel  John  H.  Clark  was  chosen 
Chairman,  and  Mr.  Thomas  Shelton,  Secretary.  A  num- 
ber of  patriotic  speeches  were  made  by  our  citizens,  and 
it  was  determined  that  the  quota  of  Melrose  should  be 
speedily  raised. 

A  proposition  was  submitted  to  the  meeting  by  Mr. 
Rufus  Smith,  of  the  following  tenor,  viz :  —  That  enough 
of  the  citizens  of  the  town  to  fill  the  quota,  then  and  there 
pledge  themselves  either  to  enlist,  or  furnish  substitutes. 

The  following  gentlemen  gave  their  names,  agreeing  to 
abide  by  the  proposition ;  four  of  them  proposing  to  fur- 
nish two  substitutes. 

Rufus  Smith,  two  men. 

George  W.  Heath,  " 

David  Fairbanks,  " 


40  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Frank  A.  Messenger,  two  men. 

N.  B.  Bryant,  one  man. 

George  A.  Bacon,  " 

Charles  H.  Isburgh,         " 

John  W.  Fairbanks,        " 

Isaac  Emerson,  Jr.,         " 

Theodore  L.  Knowles,    " 

George  Emerson  2d,       " 

Moses  Parker,  M.  D.,      " 

R,  Watson  Emerson,      " 

Elbridge  H.  Goss,  " 

Thomas  C.  Evans,  " 

Anthony  Crosby,  " 

EUsha  W.  Cobb, 

George  W.  Emerson,      " 

Daniel  Russell,  " 

The  names  of  the  volunteers  procured  by  the  above 
gentlemen,  as  their  substitutes,  and  the  battery  and  regi- 
ments in  which  they  served,  are  as  follows.  Sums  rang- 
ing from  twenty  to  fifty  dollars  each  were  paid  for  these 
substitutes,  in  addition  to  the  bounty  of  one  hundred  dol- 
lars paid  by  the  Town. 

Nelson  W.  Bickford,  Co.  I,  38th  Reg.,  Charles  S.  Jones, 
Co.  G.,  39th  Reg.,  for  Rufus  Smith. 

Francis  Deshon,  Co.  K.,  38th  Reg.,  James  R.  Howard, 
Co.  K.,  38th  Reg.,  for  George  W.  Heath. 

John  P.  Shelton,  Co.  A.,  13th  Reg.,  Ambrose  Dawes, 
Co.  A.,  13th  Reg.,  for  Frank  A.  Messenger. 

Charles  L.  White,  Co.  E.,  ist  H.  Art,  for  George  A. 
Bacon. 

Nathan  H.  Brand,  9th  Bat.,  for  John  W.  Fairbanks. 

Horace  Prescott,  9th  Bat.,  for  Isaac  Emerson,  Jr. 

Samuel  Tobey,  9th  Bat,  for  Thomas  C.  Evans. 


WAR    MEETING.  4I 

William  L.  Tucker,  9th  Bat.,  for  George  W.  Emerson. 

James  A.  Kennelly,  Co.  I,  38th  Reg.,  for  Elbridge  H. 
,  Goss. 

Benjamin  Lynde,  Co.  K,  38th  Reg.,  for  Theodore  L. 
Knowles. 

George  O.  Noyes,  Co.  K,  38th  Reg.,  for  George  Emer- 
son, 2d. 

William  H.  Martin,  Co.  K,  38th  Reg.,  for  R.  Watson 
Emerson. 

George  E.  Richardson,  Co.  K,  38th  Reg.,  for  Anthony 
Crosby. 

Benjamin  Tower,  Co.  K.,  38th  Reg.,  for  Elisha  W.  Cobb. 

James  W.  Emerson,  Co.  K,  38th  Reg.,  for  Daniel  Russell. 

The  substitutes  for  those  whose  names  do  not  appear  in 
the  latter  list  were  non-residents  ;  and  they  were  obtained 
and  put  into  the  service  by  Captain  James  H.  Wade,  of 
the  Thirty-Eighth  Regiment. 

The  following  article  of  agreement  was  drawn  up  and 
circulated,  immediately  after  this  meeting,  and  was  very 
generally  signed  by  our  citizens.  As  will  be  seen  hereaf- 
ter, the  vote  to  pay  one  hundred  dollars  ($100)  bounty 
to  each  volunteer,  and  the  appointment  of  the  Committee 
referred  to  in  this  article,  were  duly  authorized  at  a  regu- 
larly called  Town  Meeting, 

At  a  meeting  of  the  citizens  of  Melrose,  held  this  day,  for  the 
purpose  of  procuring  the  necessary  quota  of  soldiers  required 
from  the  Town,  in  accordance  with  the  Governor's  Order  No. 
26,  a  Committee  was  appointed  consisting  of  the  present  Board 
of  Selectmen,  together  with  Messrs.  Elbridge  Gardner,  Isaac 
Emerson,  Jr.,  and  John  W.  Fairbanks,  who  were  empowered  to 
draw  upon  the  Town  Treasurer  moneys  in  the  amount  of  one 
hundred  dollars  ($100)  per  man  for  every  volunteer  so  required, 
recruited  and  accepted.  And  in  order  that  the  wishes  of  the  cit- 
6 


42  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

izens  thus  expressed  should  have  the  necessary  legal  and  bind- 
ing effect,  and  that  the  moneys  thus  raised  should  fall  equally 
alike  upon  all  in  proportion  to  their  substance,  the  Committee 
were  directed  to  employ  an  officer  to  visit  every  tax-payer  and 
request  his  or  her  assent  and  signature  to  this  agreement ;  to 
wit : 

Whereas  it  appears  to  us  that  it  has  become  necessary  to  raise 
money  for  military  purposes  in  an  informal  manner,  and  without 
any  precedent  in  law. 

We,  the  Tax-payers  of  Melrose,  give  our  assent,  and  by  our 
signatures  do  hereby  bind  ourselves  to  pay,  without  demurring, 
our  property  proportion  of  the  aforesaid  levy,  waiving  any  infor- 
mality in  law ;  and  do  further  agree  that  the  same  shall  be  con- 
sidered as  due  from  us  as  a  portion  of  our  Town  Tax  to  be 
assessed,  paid  or  collected  in  the  customary  and  usual  manner 
and  form  ;  and  save  the  before-named  Committee,  as  also,  all 
Town  Officers  engaged  in  raising  and  disbursing  the  same, 
harmless  in  their  private  capacity  and  estate. 

Melrose,  July  14,  1862. 

A  Town  meeting  was  called  and  held  at  Lyceum  Hall, 
July  28th.  Mr.  William  B.  Burgess  was  chosen  Moderator, 
and  the  proceedings  of  the  citizens'  meeting  were  read  by 
the  Secretary,  and  fully  indorsed  and  accepted  ;  and  further 
measures  were  taken  to  induce  and  secure  enlistments. 

The  following  vote  — offered  by  Mr.  Henry  A.  Norris  — 
was  unanimously  passed  : 

Voted,  That  the  sum  of  thirty-seven  hundred  dollars  ($3,700) 
be  raised  to  pay  thirty-seven  (37)  able-bodied  men,  who  shall  vol- 
untarily enlist  in  the  service  of  the  United  States  under  the  re- 
cent call  of  the  President  of  the  United  States  for  three  hundred 
thousand  (300,000)  men  ;  and  that  the  Selectmen  be  authorized 
to  disburse  one  hundred  dollars  ($100)  to  each  man  who  shall 


TOWN    MEETING.  43 

enlist,  as  soon  as  he  shall  have  been  accepted  by  the  military 
authorities  of  this  State,  and  mustered  into  said  service.^ 

It  was  also 

Voted,  That  the  sum  of  two  hundred  dollars  ($200)  be  raised 
to  aid  the  cause  of  enlistment,  to  be  disbursed  by  a  Committee 
chosen  at  this  meeting,  in  such  manner  as  said  Committee  deem 
best. 

This  Committee  consisted  of  the  Selectmen,  —  Colonel 
John  *H.  Clark,  and  Messrs.  William  B.  Burgess  and 
George  M.  Fletcher,  —  and  Messrs.  Elbridge  Gardner, 
Isaac  Emerson,  Jr.,  and  John  W.  Fairbanks. 

Encouraging  and  patriotic  speeches  were  made  by  Hon. 
N.  B.  Bryant,  Rev.  George  W.  Quinby,  Mr.  Charles  H. 
Isburgh,  and  others,  A  determination  to  bear  our  share 
of  expense,  and  raise  our  proportion  of  men  for  the  field, 
was  manifested,  and  the  best  spirit  prevailed  during  the 
entire  meeting. 

In  order  to  encourage  -and  obtain  enlistments,  Mr. 
Henry  A.  Norris  offered  to  pay  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars 
($50)  to  the  first  five  men  who  should  enlist  at  this  time. 

Mr.  Daniel  W.  Wilcox  also  offered  to  pay  ten  dollars 
($10)  each  to  the  next  ten  men  that  should  enlist  from  our 
town. 

Hon.  N,  B.  Bryant  agreed  to  pay  the  sum  often  dollars 
($10)  each  to  all  others  who  should  sign  the  enlistment  roll 
on  that  evening. 

With  these  extra  inducements  a  number  of  our  young 
men  enlisted  at  this  time,  the  first  one  to  sign  his  name 
to  the  roll  being 

William  Francis  Barry. 


*  For  form  in  which  this  bounty  was  paid  to  those  who  enlisted  at  this 
time,  see  appendix  B. 


44  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

This  meeting  was  adjourned  until  the  evening  of  August 
2d,  when  a  very  large  and  enthusiastic  gathering  was  held, 
at  which  stirring  and  interesting  addresses  were  made  by 
Hon.  Daniel  W.  Gooch,  —  then  member  of  Congress  from 
the  Sixth  District ;  ^  Judge  Cochran,  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  Maryland  ;  Sergeant  E.  G.  Adams,  of  the  Second  New 
Hampshire  Regiment ;  Captain  James  H.  Slade,  of  the 
Thirty-Eighth  Massachusetts  Regiment,  and  formerly  of 
General  Sigel's  staff;  Mr.  Rufus  Smith  and  Rev.  G;;eorge 
W.  Quinby.  The  exertions  and  inducements  put  forth  at 
these  meetings  were  successful,  and  our  quota  was  more 
than  filled. 

We  now  give  the  names  of  those  who  enlisted  for  three 
years,  on  the  quota  of  Melrose,  at  this  time,  and  during 
the  rest  of  the  year  1862,  excepting  those  who  went  into 
the  regiments  organized  the  year  before,  and  whose  names 
have  been  already  given  on  previous  pages.  No  special 
effort  has  been  made  to  gather  items  concerning  non- 
residents. 


^  In  January  1858,  Mr.  Gooch  was  elected  Representative  from  the  Seventh 
District  for  the  remainder  of  the  term  commencing  March  4,  1857.  He  was 
re-elected  for  the  succeeding  terms,  commencing  in  1859,  1861,  1863  —  then 
by  a  new  division  of  Representative  Districts,  called  the  Sixth  instead  of  the 
Seventh  District  —  and  1865.  He  was  a  member  of  the  "Congressional 
Committee  on  the  Conduct  of  the  War  "  during  its  four  years  of  investiga- 
tions, and  its  Chairman  on  the  part  of  the  House.  The  following  are  among 
the  speeches  delivered  at  different  times  during  his  congressional  service  : 
"  The  Lecompton  Constitution  and  the  admission  of  Kansas  into  the  Union," 
March  29,  1858;  "  Polygamy  in  Utah,"  April  4,  i860;  "  The  Supreme  Court 
and  Dred  Scott,"  May  3,  i860;  "Organization  of  the  Territories,"  May  11, 
i860;  "Any  Compromise  a  Surrender,"  February  23,  1861 ;  "  Recognition  of 
Hayti  and  Liberia,"  June  2,  1862;  "  Secession  and  Reconstruction,"  May  3, 
1864.  He  resigned  his  seat  in  the  House  September  i,  1865,  having  been 
appointed  Naval  Officer  for  the  Port  of  Boston  by  President  Johnson,  and 
was  removed  by  him  in  less  than  a  year  from  the  time  of  his  appointment,  y^ 


THE    ELEVENTH    REGIMENT.  4^ 

ELEVENTH     REGIMENT.i 
Co.  I. 

PRIVATE. 

WELLS,    CHARLES    A. 

Wounded  at  "Battle  of  Gettysburg,"  July  2,  1863  ;2  mus- 
tered out  at  expiration  of  service,  June  24,  1864. 

FIRST     HEAVY     ARTILLERY.^ 
Co.  E. 

PRIVATE. 

WHITE,    CHARLES    L. 

Wounded  in  hand  —  one  finger  shot  off — at  Warrenton 
Junction,  Aug.  28,  1862,  trying  to  save  General  Pope's 
supply  train ;  transferred  to  Veteran  Reserve  Corps 
Oct.  23,  1863  ;  mustered  out  Nov.  15,  1865. 


*  The  Eleventh  Massachusetts  was  recruited  at  Fort  Warren,  Boston  Har- 
bor, and  mustered  into  the  United  States  service  June  13,  1861.  It  was  in 
most  of  the  principal  battles  participated  in  by  the  "  Army  of  the  Potomac  " 
from  the  First  Bull  Run  to  the  Siege  of  Petersburg  and  fall  of  Richmond. 

*  Federal  loss  in  this  battle,  23,186;  2,834  killed,  13,709  wounded,  6,643 
missing.     Rebel  loss  estimated  at  26,500  in  killed,  wounded  and  prisoners. 

^  The  First  Massachusetts  Heavy  Artillery  —  changed  from  Fourteenth 
Regiment  Infantry — left  the  State  July  7,  1861,  and  was  stationed  in  the 
Forts  around  Washington  until  the  last  campaign,  when  it  took  part  in  the 
following  battles :  Spottsylvania,  North  Anna  River,  Tolopotomy,  Cool 
Arbor,  Petersburg,  Strawberry  Plains,  Deep  Bottom,  Poplar  Spring  Church, 
Boydtown  Road,  Hatcher's  Run,  Duncan's  Run  and  Vaughn  Road. 


4^  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

THIRTY-THIRD     REGIMEN  t.i 
Co.  C. 

PRIVATES. 

DAVIS,    LOAMI    G. 
Discharged  March  15,  1863,  for  disability.^ 

KRANTZ,    FREDERICK    W. 

Taken  prisoner  after  "  Battle  of  Gettysburg  "  by  Stuart's 
cavalry  while  on  a  raid  ;  held  seven  months,  escaped, 
and  joined  his  regiment  at  Lookout  Valley  ;  again  taken 
prisoner  while  on  the  "  march  to  the  sea "  and  confined 
at  "Salisbury  Prison;"  paroled  April  3,  1865;  dis- 
charge'd  June  6,  1865. 

THIRTY-EIGHTH     REGIMENT.^ 
Co.  I. 

MUSICIAN. 

KENNISTON,    CHARLES. 

Wounded  at  "Siege  of  Port  Hudson,"  June  14,  1863; 
mustered  out  with  regiment,  June  30,  1865  ;  non-resi- 
dent. 


*  The  Thirty-Third  Massachusetts  left  the  State  Aug.  14,  1862,  and  was 
jn  the  following  battles :  Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville,  Beverly  Ford, 
Gettysburg,  Lookout  Mountain,  Missionary  Ridge  and  the  battles  of  Gen- 
eral Sherman's  Grand  Army. 

*  Re-enlisted  in  Third  Heavy  Artillery,  see  chap.  VI. 

*  The  Thirty-Eighth  Massachusetts  left  the  State  Aug.  26,  1862,  and  was 
in  the  following  engagements:  Cane  River,  Mansura,  Bisland,  Port  Hud- 
son, Opequan,  Fisher's  Hill  and  Cedar  Creek. 


THE    THIRTY-EIGHTH    REGIMENT.'  47 

SERGEANT. 

MORRISON,    CHARLES    H. 

Deserted  at  "  Camp  Emory,"  Baltimore,  Md.,  Nov.  7, 
1862.1 

CORPORAL. 

KENNELLEY,    JAMES    A. 

Discharged  at  Mower  Hospital,  Phila.,  Pa.,  May  3,  1865, 
for  disability  ;  non-resident. 

PRIVATES. 

BICKFORD,    NELSON    W. 

Discharged  Sept.  28,  1863,  at  Baton  Rouge.  La.,  for  dis- 
ability. 

KELLEY,    PATRICK. 

Mustered  out  June  30,  1865  ;  non-resident. 

RICE,    GEORGE. 

Absent,  sick,  at  muster-out  of  regiment ;  non-resident. 

Co.  K. 

LIEUTENANT. 

MARTIN,    GEORGE    T. 

Went  out  2d  Lieutenant ;  promoted  ist  Lieutenant  April 
14,  1863  ;  resigned  Aug.  12,  1863,  on  account  of  dis- 
ability.2 


'  The  whole  number  of  deserters  from  the  Union  army  during  the  war 
was  278,644  ;  whole  number  of  Massachusetts  soldiers  that  deserted  was 
7,352  ;  only  two  citizens  of  Melrose  are  here  recorded  as  deserters. 

"  Re-entered  the  service  in  Fourth  Heavy  Artillery,  see  chap.  VI. 


48  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

SERGEANT. 

MARTIN,    WILLIAM    H. 

On  detached  service  in  Ordnance  Department  from  April 
II  till  Aug.  I,  1863  ;  mustered  out  June  30,  1865. 

CORPORALS. 

NOYES,    GEORGE    O. 

Promoted  Corporal  March  10,  1863  ;  wounded  in  hand  at 
"Siege  of  Port  Hudson,"  June  14,  1863  ;  mustered  out 
June  30,  1865. 

TOWER,    BENJAMIN. 

Promoted  Corporal  Aug.  10,  1863  ;  wounded  at  "  Battle  of 
Cedar  Creek,"  Oct.  19,  1864;  mustered  out  June  30, 
1865. 

PRIVATES. 

DESHON,    FRANCIS. 
Mustered  out  June  30,  1865. 

EMERSON,    JAMES    W. 
Mustered  out  June  30,  1865. 

HOWARD,    JAMES    R. 
Discharged  Dec.  5,  1863,  for  disability.^ 

LYNDE,    BENJAMIN. 

Died  Aug.  18,  1863,  at  Baton  Rouge,  La.,  of  chronic  diar- 
rhoea.^ 


'  Died  at  Melrose  Aug.  16,  1864  ;  for  obituary  notice,  see  "  Roll  of  Honor." 
'  For  obituary  notice,  see  "  Roll  of  Honor." 


THE    THIRTY-NINTH    REGIMENT.  49 

RICHARDSON,  GEORGE  E. 

Taken  prisoner  at  "  Battle  of  Cedar  Creek,"  Oct.  19,  1864  ; 
died  in  prison  at  Salisbury,  N.  C,  Nov.  3,  1864.^ 

THIRTY-NINTH    REGIMENT.^ 
Co.  G. 

CORPORAL. 

STONE,  HENRY. 
Discharged  at  Boston,  Sept.  30,  1863,  for  disability.3 

PRIVATES. 

EARL,  WILLIAM  H. 

Wounded  in  hand  at  Hagerstown,  Md.,  July   15,  1863; 
transferred  to  navy,^  April  21,  1864.5 

JACKSON,  WILLIAM  H. 

Discharged  May  19,  1864,  for  disability. 

JONES,  CHARLES   S. 

Transferred  to  Veteran  Reserve  Corps,  March  31,  1864; 
discharged  June  24,  1865. 

PIKE,  JACOB  F. 

Mustered  out  June  13,  1865. 

'  For  obituary  notice,  see  "  Roll  of  Honor." 

'The  Thirty-Ninth  Massachusetts  left  the  State  Sept  6,  1862,  and  was  in 
the  following  battles :  —  Mine  Run,  Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  North  Anna 
River,  Tolopotomy,  Bethesda  Church,  Petersburg,  Weldon  Railroad,  Dab- 
ney's  Mills,  Gravelly  Run  and  Five  Forks. 

'  Re  enlisted  in  Fifty-Ninth  Regiment,  see  chap.  VI. 

■•  Authority  for  thus  transferring  given  by  Congress,  Feb.  24,  1864. 

*  For  navy  items,  see  chap.  IX. 
7 


50  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

STEBBENS,  THADDEUS   S. 

Discharged  Dec.  25,  1863,  at  Finley  Hospital,  Washing 
ton,  D.  C,  for  disability. 

Co.  I. 

PRIVATES. 

BURNS,   FRANCIS. 


Non-resident. 
Non-resident. 
Non-resident. 
Non-resident. 


FERGUSON,  JOHN. 

SAWYER,   OBADIAH. 

WILSON,  JOHN. 


NINTH     BATTERY.i 

CORPORAL. 

TUCKER,  WILLIAM   L. 

Promoted  Corporal  Oct.  23,  1864;  mustered  out  with  bat- 
tery, June  6,  1865. 

PRIVATES. 

BRAND,   NATHAN   H. 

Died   March  6,  1864,  at   Emory  Hospital,  Washington, 
D.  C,  of  cholera  morbus. 


'  The  Ninth  Massachusetts  Battery  left  the  State  Sept.  3,  1862,  and  was  in 
the  following  engagements :  Gettysburg,  Mine  Run,  Spottsylvania,  North 
Anna  River,  Tolopotomy,  Bethesda  Church,  Petersburg,  Weldon  Railroad 
and  Hatcher's  Run. 


SECOND    CAVALRY.  5I 

CHAPIN,    JOSEPH    A. 
Discharged  Aug.  29,   1864,  to  receive  promotion  as  Hos- 
pital Steward  in  United  States  Army,  by  General  Order 
No.  284,  Adjutant  General's  Office,  Washington,  D.  C.^ 
PRESCOTT,    HORACE. 
Mustered  out  June  6,  1865. 

TOBEY,    SAMUEL. 
Wounded  at  "  Battle  of  Gettysburg,"  July  2,  1 863  ;  mus- 
tered out  June  6,  1865  ;  non-resident. 

THIRTEENTH     BATTERY.^ 

CORPORAL. 

ELLIS,    ALVAN    T. 
Promoted  Corporal  Dec.  30,  1862  ;  deserted  Dec.  11,  1863, 
at  Hampton,  Va. ;  non-resident.^ 

SECOND     CAVALRY.-* 
Co.  B. 

PRIVATES. 

HARRIS,    WILLIAM. 
Non-resident. 

'  Served  fifteen  months  at  Fort  Independence,  Boston  Harbor. 

*  The  Thirteenth  Massachusetts  Battery  left  the  State  Jan.  20,  1863.  It 
was  in  the  "  Department  of  the  Gulf,"  and  took  part  in  the  following  engage- 
ments :  Port  Hudson,  Carrion  Crow  Bayou  and  Pleasant  Hill. 

'  In  the  Adjutant  General's  Office  at  the  State  House,  he  is  credited  to 
Boston  ;  but  Melrose  put  him  into  the  service,  and  paid  his  bounty. 

*  The  Second  Massachusetts  Cavalry  was  mu^red  in  the  early  part  of 
1863,  and  was  in  the  following  engagements  :  South  Anna  Bridge,  Ashley's 
Gap,  Drainesville,  Aldie,  Fort  Stevens,  Fort  Reno,  Rockville,  Poolesville, 
Summit  Point,  Halltown,  Opequan,  Winchester,  Luray,  Waynesboro,  Tom's 
Brook,  Cedar  Creek,  South  Anna,  White  Oak  Road,  Berryville  Pike, 
Charlestown,  Dinwiddie's  Court  House,  Five  Forks,  Baylor's  Creek,  Ap- 
pomattox Court  House. 


52  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Co.  C. 
CLARK,  JAMES.i 
Non-resident ;  mustered  out  June  6,  1865. 

Co.  D. 

BURKE,    PATRICK. 
Non-resident. 

GILLISPIE,    JOHN. 

Non-resident ;  died  from  wounds  at  Washington,  D.  C, 
July  20,  1864. 

ROBERTSON,    WILLIAM. 
Non-resident. 

Co.  H. 

HOLLIS,    HENRY   P.2 
Mustered  out  June  6,  1865. 

Co.  L 
BRANDON,   EDWARD   A.i 
Non-resident ;  mustered  out  June  6,  1865. 

Co.  K. 
KING,    DAVID    H.i 
Non-resident;  mustered  out  June  6,  1865. 


»  Enlisted  May  25,  1864. 
'  Enlisted  Nov.  30,  1863. 


THIRD    CAVALRY.  53 

THIRD     CAVALRY.i 
Co.  D. 

CAPTAIN. 

SIMONDS,    JOSEPH    F. 

Mustered  in  as  Sergeant  of  Co.  E  ;  wounded  severely  in 
the  shoulder  during  a  cavalry  charge  in  the  "  Red  River 
Expedition,"  May  i8,  1864  ;  promoted  ist  Sergeant,  July 
8,  1 864  ;  2d  Lieutenant,  Sept.  20,  1 864 ;  wounded  in 
hand  at  "Battle  of  Opequan,"  Sept.  19,  1864;  promoted 
1st  Lieutenant  May  28,  1865  ;  at  the  close  of  the  war 
the  regiment  was  ordered  to  the  West,  to  quell  Indian 
disturbances  ;  wounded  —  shot  through  both  thighs  — 
at  Fort  Kearney,  Aug.  25,  1865  ;  promoted  Captain 
Oct.  5,  1865;  discharged  Oct.  8,  1865. 

Co.  G. 

PRIVATE. 

HUGHES,    JAMES.2 
Non-resident. 


*  The  Third  Massachusetts  Cavalry  was  originally  the  Forty-First  Regi- 
ment of  Infantry.  It  left  the  State  Nov.  15,  1862,  and  took  part  in  the  fol- 
lowing engagements  :  Irish  Bend,  Henderson's  Hill,  Cane  River,  Georgia 
Landing,  Port  Hudson,  Sabine  Cross  Roads,  Muddy  Bayou,  Piney  Woods, 
Red  River  Campaign,  Opequan,  Fisher's  Hill,  Snag  Point,  Winchester, 
Cedar  Creek,  and  others. 

*  Enlisted  April  14,  1864. 


V. 

i862. 


Nine  Months'  Men. 
In  Freedom's  name  our  blades  we  draw, 

She  arms  us  for  the  fight ! 
For  country,  government,  and  law, 

For  Liberty  and  Right. 
The  Union  must  —  shall  be  preserved. 

Our  flag  still  o'er  us  fly  ! 
That  cause  our  hearts  and  hands  has  nerved 

And  we  will  do  or  die. 

George  F.  Morris. 

"  We  are  coming,  Father  Abra'am, 
Three  hundred  thousand  more. 
From  Mississippi's  winding  stream 
And  from  New- England's  shore." 


On  the  4th  of  August,  1862,  President  Lincoln  issued 
his  proclamation  calling  for  three  hundred  thousand  (300,- 
000)  more  troops,  to  serve  for  nine  months  ;  a  draft  to  be 
made  if  the  quotas  were  not  filled  by  volunteers  by  the 
15  th  of  August. 

The  proportion  assigned  by  the  War  Department  to 
Massachusetts  v^as  nineteen  thousand  and  eighty  (19,080) 
men.     The  quota  of  Melrose  was  seventy-nine  (79)  men. 

To  this  call,  as  heretofore,  Melrose  responded  promptly, 
sending  its  full  quota  of  seventy-nine  (79)  men  into  the 
field  in  eight  different  regiments. 


OUR    NINE    months'    MEN.  ^^ 

A  war  meeting  was  called  and  held  at  the  vestry  of  the 
Orthodox  Church  on  the  evening  of  August  i  ith,  to  con- 
sult in  relation  to  supplying  these  additional  troops.  Col- 
onel John  H.  Clark  was  chosen  Chairman,  and  Mr.  Charles 
H.  Isburgh,  Secretary.  Speeches  were  made  by  Colonel 
Clark,  Mr.  George  F.  Stone,  and  several  other  citizens  ; 
and  a  vote  was  passed  recommending  that  the  Town  pay 
a  bounty  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  ($150)  to  each 
and  every  person  that  should  enlist  and  enter  the  service 
for  nine  months. 

A  warrant  for  a  Town  Meeting  was  immediately  issued, 
to  be  held  August  21st,  to  take  the  matter  into  considera- 
tion. Colonel  John  H.  Clark  was  chosen  Moderator.  As 
will  be  seen  by  the  following  vote,  offered  by  Mr.  Stephen 
W.  Shelton,  the  recommendation  of  the  citizens'  meeting 
was  fully  indorsed  and  adopted  : 

Fofet/,  That  the  Town  raise  an  amount  of  money  equal  or 
equivalent  to  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  ($150) 
per  man,  for  every  man  who  is,  or  who  may  be  required  from 
this  Town  to  answer  to  the  recent  call  of  the  President  of  the 
United  States  for  additional  troops  for  nine  months'  service,  to 
serve  in  the  army  of  the  United  States  ;  and  that  the  Treasurer  is 
authorized  and  required,  under  the  direction  of  the  Selectmen, 
to  borrow  that  amount  of  money  and  pay  the  same  to  such  par- 
ties who  may  volunteer,  and  are  properly  and  legally  accepted 
by  the  proper  and  legal  authorities  for  such  service. 

It  was  also  voted,  on  motion  of  Mr.  Rufus  Smith, 

That  a  Rallying  Committee  of  twenty-five  men  be  appointed 
by  the  Chairman  of  this  meeting,  with  full  powers  to  call  meet- 
ings and  perform  such  other  duties  as  they  may  deem  neces- 
sary ;  and  that  an  appropriation  of  three  hundred  dollars 
($300)  for  incidental  expenses  be  made  by  the  Town,  to  be 
expended  under  the  direction  of  said  Committee. 


5^  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

The  following  citizens  were  appointed  to  serve  on  that 
Committee  : 

Rufus  Smith,  R.  Watson  Emerson, 

Michael  A.  McCafiferty,  Frank  A.  Messenger, 

Nelson  Cochran,  Napoleon  B,  Bryant, 

Moses  Parker,  M.  D.,  Isaac  Emerson,  Jr., 

Samuel  O.  Dearborn,  •         Joel  Snow, 

Henry  A.  Norris,  George  W.  Emerson, 

Henry  B.  Newhall,  Philip  B.  Holmes, 

Fernando  C.  Taylor,  Levi  S.  Gould, 

John  S.  Sewall,  Walter  Babb, 

Daniel  Norton,  Jr.,  Allen  C.  Goss, 

Josiah  P.  Mendum,  Addison  W.  Banfield, 

George  A.  Bacon,  Isaiah  A.  Young, 

Stephen  W.  Shelton. 

The  Selectmen  were  afterwards  joined  to  this  Com- 
mittee. 

Several  large  and  spirited  war  meetings  were  held  at 
various  places  in  the  town,  under  the  auspices  of  this  Ral- 
lying Committee.  The  first  one  took  place  on  Monday 
evening,  August  25th,  at  Lyceum  Hall.  Good  music  was 
furnished  by  the  Maiden  Band,  and  some  fine  singing  by 
a  quartette.  Addresses  were  made  by  Lieutenant-Colonel 
Wardwell,  of  the  Thirty-Eighth  Massachusetts  Regiment, 
Hon.  Daniel  W.  Gooch,  Hon.  Elihu  C,  Baker,  Messrs. 
George  W.  Copeland,  Guppy,  and  others. 

Meetings  were  also  held  on  Wednesday,  Thursday  and 
Saturday  evenings  of  this  week,  at  which  addresses  were 
made  by  our  citizens,  and  by  speakers  from  abroad  ;  and 
volunteers  came  rapidly  forward,  and  this  quota  of  sev- 
enty-nine (79)  was  filled. 

The  last  week  of  August  was  almost  wholly  given  up 


OUR    NINE    months'    MEN.  57 

to  recruiting  purposes.  The  Governor  recommended  a 
suspension  of  business  during  the  afternoons,  and  the  rec- 
ommendation was  very  generally  complied  with. 

Owing  to  the  measures  taken  at  these  various  meetings, 
the  following  paper  —  whereby  the  signers  agreed  to  pay 
their  just  proportion  of  all  taxes,  and  to  indemnify  all  town 
officers  for  any  action  taken  in  carrying  out  the  wishes  of 
the  town  —  was  circulated  among  the  citizens  for  signa- 
tures : 

Agreement. 

Be  it  remembered,  that  whereas  the  Town  of  Melrose,  at 
several  meetings  called  for  that  purpose,  have,  with  great  una- 
nimity, passed  sundry  votes  providing  for  the  payment  of  bounty 
to  our  volunteers,  and  for  the  support  of  their  families,  and 
other  incidental  war  purposes,  which  votes  may,  upon  nice 
and  technical  grounds,  be  regarded  as  invalid  in  law,  —  Now, 
therefore,  we  the  undersigned,  Tax-payers  in  the  Town  of  Mel- 
rose, hereby  waive  all  objection  to  the  form,  substance,  or  valid- 
ity of  said  proceedings  ;  and  agree  to  pay  all  taxes  assessed 
against  us  respectively  arising  from  said  votes. 

And  we  severally  hereby  release  any  present  or  future  officer 
of  said  Town  from  all  actions,  or  causes  of  action,  on  account  of 
the  assessment  or  collection  of  the  aforesaid  tax  ;  all  of  which 
we  feel  in  duty  bound  to  do,  as  true  and  loyal  citizens,  resolved 
to  make  any  sacrifice  necessary  for  the  most  vigorous  prosecu- 
tion of  the  war,  and  for  the  .  honor  and  dignity  of  our  glorious 
flag. 

Of  our  nine  months'  volunteers,  twenty-nine  enlisted  in 
the  Forty-Second  Massachusetts  Regiment,  all  but  one  of 
them  being  in  Co.  G  ;  and  they  experienced  the  sad  fate 
of  falling  into  the  hands  of  the  rebels,  at  the  "  Battle  of 
Galveston,"  January  ist,  1863.  But  they  were  not,  thank 
God !  destined  to  underero  the  horrors  of  an  "  Anderson- 


S^  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

ville,"  "Salisbury,"  or  "Belle  Isle,"  as   they  were  soon 
afterward  paroled. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  our  nine  months'  men, 
with  their  regiment  and  company  : 

FIFTH     REGIMENT.i 
Co.  A. 

PRIVATE. 

CHASE,    EDE    K. 
Mustered  out  with  the  regiment,  July  2,  1863. 

Co.  H. 

PRIVATE. 

SUMNER,    STEPHEN. 
Mustered  out  with  the  regiment,  July  2,  1863. 

FORTY-SECOND     REGIMENT.2 
Co.  G. 

CORPORAL. 

BUTTRICK,    JOHN    W. 
Taken  prisoner  at  "Battle  of  Galveston,"  Jan.  i,  1863  ;  in 

'  The  Fifth  Massachusetts,  —  which  served  in  the  three  months'  campaign 
at  the  beginning  of  the  Rebellion, — now  volunteering  for  nine  months,  left 
Boston  Oct.  22,  1862,  for  New  Berne,  N,  C.  Its  period  of  service  was 
passed  in  the  "  Department  of  North  Carolina,"  and  it  was  in  the  following 
engagements :  Whitehall,  Kinston,  Goldsboro',  New  Berne,  Blount's  Creek, 
and  Moseley  Creek,  besides  numerous  expeditions  and  reconnoissances, 
marching  six  hundred  miles  over  the  poor  roads  of  North  Carolina,  during 
its  term  of  service. 

'  The  Forty-Second  Massachusetts  left  the  State  Nov.  21,  1862,  for  the 
"  Department  of  the  Gulf."  Three  companies  —  D,  G  and  I  —  were  in  the 
"  Battle  of  Galveston,"  Jan.  i,  1863,  and  taken  prisoners ;  *  afterwards 
paroled,  but  not  exchanged  ;  therefore  did  not  perform  any  more  active  ser- 
vice.    The  balance  of  the  regiment  served  in  the  Louisiana  campaigns. 

*  "  When  Colonel  Burrill  offered  his  sword  to  the  officer  designated  by  General  Magru- 
der  to  receive  the  surrender,  he  was  desired  to  keep  it,  in  respect  to  his  brave  and  able 
defence  of  his  position  against  such  an  overwhelming  force;  and,  on  being  informed  that  the 
little  band  that  stood  before  them  were  all  the  troops  there,  the  rebels  could  scarcely  believe 
it,  and  were  surprised  they  had  held  their  position  so  well  and  so  long." 


FORTY-SECOND    REGIMENT.  59 

prison  at  Houston,  Texas  ;  paroled  while  on  steamer 
"General  Quitman,"  near  Alexandria,  La.,  Feb.  18, 
1863  ;  mustered  out  with  the  regiment,  Aug.  20,  1863. 

MUSICIAN. 

IRESON,    DAVID   A.i 

WAGONER. 

JUDKINS,    ROLAND    C.i 

PRIVATES. 

BARRETT,    CHARLES.i 

BARRETT,    CHARLES    L.i 

BARNARD,    JOHN    M.,    JR.i 

BOARDMAN,    CHARLES.^ 

BRIDGES,    HENRY. 

Deserted  at  New  York  City,  Dec.  6,  1862  ;  non-resident. 

BRYANT,    THOMAS    O.i 
BURNHAM,    PASCHAL    E. 
Discharged  March  27,  1863,  for  disability. 

CLARK,    FREDERICK    F.i 

CORSON,    FREDERICK    U.i 

DAVIS,    JOHN    E.1 

DAVIS,    JAMES    L.12 


*  Same  military  history  as  that  of  Corporal  Buttrick. 
•Also  served  ninety  days  in  Seventh  Uiu  Co.  Infantry,   in   1864;  see 
chap.  VIII. 


60  •  THE     MELROSE    MEMORIAL, 

DOUBLE,    EDMUND    B.i 
Wounded  in  hand  at  "Battle  of  Galveston,"  Jan.  i,  1863. 

EMERSON,    JAMES    G.i  2 

HETON,    JOHN.i 

HYDE,    GEORGE    S.i 

IRESON,    ALONZO    D.i 

LYNDE,    AMOS    W.»  2 

LYNDE,    CHARLES    B.i 

MARSTON,    JAMES    M. 

Deserted  Dec.  6,  1862,  at  New  York  City  ;  non-resident, 

SWEETSER,   THOMAS    T.i 
Wounded  in  the  mouth  at  "  Battle  of  Galveston." 

MARSHALL,    SAMUEL.^ 
UPHAM,    CHARLES    H.i 
VINTON,    EDWIN    A.^  3 
YORK,    JOSIAH    R.12 
YORK,    WILLIAM    B.i  2 

Co.   H. 

PRIVATE. 

WILDE,    BENJAMIN    F, 
Deserted  Nov.  25,  1862,  at  New  York  City. 

'  Same  military  history  as  that  of  Corporal  Buttrick. 

*  Also  served  ninety  days  in  Seventh  Un.  Co.  of  Infantry  in  1864 ;  see 
chap.  VIII. 

"  Also  served  one  hundred  days  in  Eighth  Regiment  in  1864 ;  see 
chap.  Vin. 


FORTY-THIRD    REGIMENT.  6l 

FORTY-THIRD     REGIMENT.i 
Co.  A. 

PRIVATE, 

SMITH,    WAYLAND    R. 
Mustered  out  with  the  regiment,  July  30,  1863. 

FORTY-FOURTH     REGIMENT.2 
Co.  D. 

PRIVATE. 

SIMONDS,    JOSEPH    W. 
Mustered  out  with  the  regiment,  June  18,  1863.3 

*  The  Forty-Third  Massachusetts  was  in  the  "  Department  of  North  Car- 
olina," and  was  in  the  battles  of  Kinston,  Whitehall,  and  several  marches 
and  skirmishes. 

*  This  regiment  was  also  in  the  "  Department  of  North  Carolina,"  and 
was  in  the  Tarboro'  expedition,  the  battles  of  Kinston,  Whitehall,  Golds- 
boro'  and  Siege  of  Washington,  N.  C.  It  had  in  its  ranks  the  astronomer 
Tuttle,  of  Cambridge,  the  two  brothers  Cobb,  artists,  and  Rev.  Mr.  Gibbs, 
who  relinquished  the  pastorate  of  the  Universalist  Church  in  West  Cam- 
bridge. The  following  "  army  song  "  was  written  by  "  Selim,"  and  dedicated 
to  the  Forty-Fourth  : 

Tune  —  "  Scots  wha  hae  wi'  Wallace  bled." 

From  Katahdin's  snowy  crest.  Come  from  homes  you  love  so  dear, 

To  Mount  Vernon's  sacred  rest,  Come  with  hearts  that  know  no  fear. 

Through  imperial  valleys  West,  Come  with  might  in  bow  and  spear. 

Shout  the  battle-cry.  Down  bid  slavery  go. 

Hark  I  it  is  your  country's  call  I  By  the  prayers  our  fathers  breathed, 

Lo  !  she  bids  her  brave  sons  all  By  the  trusts  to  us  bequeathed, 

Make  the  band  of  traitors  fall,  By  the  hopes  our  hearts  which  heaved. 

In  recreant  graves  to  lie.  Smite  oppression  low. 

Would  you  see  our  broad  domain  Hail  our  Union's  newbirthnight ! 

By  giant  treason  rent  in  twain,  See  it  girt  with  grander  might. 

In  border-strifes  your  children  slain  ?  Ray  out  now  a  purer  light 

Back  as  cowards  fall.  To  the  nations  round. 

Would  you  see  our  banner  bright  When  our  last  victory  is  won. 

Wave  untorn  in  Freedom's  light,  When  the  work  of  blood  is  done. 

Brave  the  world's  united  might?  And  to  our  loved  homes  we  come. 

Strike,  then,  once  for  all.  To  God  shall  praises  sound. 
'Also  served  one  hundred  days  in  the  Eighth  Regiment,  in  1864;  see 
chap.  VIII. 


02  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Co.  E. 

PRIVATE. 

ROBERTS,    CHARLES    H. 
Discharged  Jan.  14,  1863,  for  disability. 

Co.  G. 

PRIVATE, 

HART,    ABNER    B. 
Mustered  out  June  18,  1863. 

Co.  H. 

PRIVATE. 

DAWES,    RICHARD    C. 
Mustered  out  June  18,  1863.* 

Co.  I. 

PRIVATES. 

ANDERSON,    LEONARD    B. 
Mustered  out  June  18,  1863. 

CROCKER,  JOSEPH    C. 
Mustered  out  June  18,  1863.^ 


'  Appointed  Acting  Ensign  in  the  navy  Dec.  i6,  1863,  but  he  was  then  liv- 
ing in  Brookline.  He  served  until  Jan.  11,  1867,  when  he  was  honorably 
discharged. 

*  Also  served  nine  months  as  clerk  in  the  Quartermaster's  Department, 
Headquarters  i8th  Army  Corps,  Army  of  the  James. 


THE    FORTY-FIFTH    REGIMENT.  63 

FORTY-FIFTH     REGIMENT.^ 
Co.  A. 

MUSICIAN. 

FREELAND,    JOSEPH    V. 

Mustered  out  with  the  regiment,  July  7,  1863  ;  non-resi- 
dent. 

Co.  D. 

SERGEANT, 

BARRY,    ROYAL    P. 
Promoted  Corporal   Sept.  27,   1862  ;   Sergeant,  June    19, 
1863  ;  mustered  out  July  7,  1863. 

PRIVATES. 

CUTTING,    WILLIAM    H.,    JR. 
Mustered  out  July  7,  1863. 

EVANS,    THOMAS    C. 
Wounded  in  both  hands  and  leg  at  "  Battle  of  Kinston," 
Dec.  14,  1862;  discharged  Feb.  27,  1863. 

FOSS,    JAMES    T. 
Wounded  at  "Battle  of  Kinston,"  Dec.   14,   1862;  mus- 
tered out  July  7,  1863, 

LEIGHTON,    WILLIAM    F. 

Mustered  out  July  7,  1863. 

CHIPMAN,    GEORGE    A. 
Mustered  out  July  7,  1863.^ 


'  The  Forty-Fifth  Massachusetts  was  in  the  "  Department  of  North  Caro- 
lina," and  in  the  battles  of  Kinston,  Whitehall,  and  several  skirmishes  and 
reconnoissances. 

*  Also  served  one  hundred  days  as  Lieutenant,  Co.  A,  Sixth  Regiment,  in 
1864 ;  see  chap,  VIII. 


64  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

MARSHALL,    JAMES. 

Mustered  out  July  7,  1863. 

Mclaughlin,  george  w. 

Mustered  out  July  7,  1863.^ 

PERKINS,    JOHN,    JR. 

Wounded  in  thigh  at  "Battle  of  Kinston,"  Dec.  14,  1862 ; 
discharged  May  21,  1863. 

JUNKINS,    EDWIN    W. 
'Mustered  out  July  7,  1863. 

Co.  I. 

PRIVATES. 

DORRING,    JOHN. 

Mustered  out  July  7,  1863  ;  non-resident. 

FOSS,    GEORGE    A. 

Mustered  out  July  7,  1863  ;  non-resident. 

FERGUSON,    JOHN. 
Mustered  out  July  7,  1863  ;  non-resident. 

^  HARRIS,    JOHN. 

Mustered  out  July  7,  1863*;  non-resident. 

MYARS,    JOHN. 
Mustered  out  July  7,  1863  ;  non-resident. 


*  Was  a  minor  at  time  of  enlistment.     For  form  of  parent's  consent  in 
such  cases  see  Appendix  C. 


THE    FORTY-EIGHTH    REGIMENT.  65 

FORTY-EIGHTH     REGIMENT.^ 
Co.  D. 

SERGEANT. 

TODD,    THOMAS. 
Mustered  out  Sept.  3,  1863  ;  non-resident. 

MUSICIAN. 

RICHARDSON,    ALFRED    C. 
Died  Aug.  8,  1863,  at  Baton  Rouge,  La. ;  non-resident. 

PRIVATE. 

CRANE,    WILLIAM    R,  JR. 

Mustered  out  Sept.  3,  1863  ;  non-resident. 

Co.  G. 

SERGEANT. 

HARE,    ANDREW. 

Mustered  out  Sept.  3,  1863. 

FIFTIETH     REGIMENT.2 
Co.  D. 

SERGEANT. 

ROWELL,    STEPHEN    R 
Mustered  out  with  the  regiment,  Aug.  24,  1863. 


'  The  Forty-Eighth  Massachusetts  left  New  York  for  the  "  Department  of 
the  Gulf,"  Jan.  4,  1863,  and  was  engaged  in  the  "  Siege  of  Port  Hudson," 
and  marches  and  skirmishes  in  that  Department. 

*  The  Fiftieth  Massachusetts  was  in  the  "  Department  of  the  Gulf,"  and 
left  the  State  Nov.  19,  1862.  Took  part  in  Siege  of  Port  Hudson,  and 
marches  and  expeditions  in  that  Department. 

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MUSICIAN.. 

NICHOLS,    WILLIAM    R. 
Mustered  out  Aug.  24,  1 863  ;  non-resident. 

Co.  E. 

PRIVATES. 

BARRON,    ELLIOT    F. 
Mustered  out  Aug.  24,  1863. 

BROWN,    JONAS    G. 
Died  June  18,  1863,  in   Regimental  Hospital  at    Baton 
Rouge,  La.,  of  malarial  fever. ^ 

COX,    JAMES    R 
Mustered  out  Aug.  24,  1863. 

DIX,    JOSEPH    0.2 
Mustered  out  Aug.  24,  1 863. 

FARRELL,    MICHAEL. 
Mustered  out  Aug.  24,  1863. 

FULLER,    GEORGE    P. 
Mustered  out  Aug.  24,  1863. 

LYMAN,    HENRY    H. 
Mustered  out  Aug.  24,  1863. 

McAllister,  george  h. 

Mustered  out  Aug.  24,  1863. 


'  For  obituary  sketch,  see  "  Roll  of  Honor." 

*Also  served  three  months  in  186 1,  in  Co.  B,  Fifth  Regiment,  from  South 
Reading. 


THE    FIFTIETH    REGIMENT.  67 

O'DONAGHUE,    JOHN. 

Deserted  Nov.  22,  1862,  at  New  York  City;  non-resident 

PRENTICE,    CHARLES. 
Mustered  out  Aug.  24,  1863. 

SHELTON,  THOMAS.i 
Mustered  out  Aug.  24,  1 863. 

SIMONDS,   CHARLES   H. 
Mustered  out  Aug.  24,  1 863  ;  non-resident.^ 

HAMILTON,    ROBERT. 
Mustered  out  Aug.  24,  1863  ;  non-resident. 

HARRINGTON,    CHARLES    T. 
Mustered  out  Aug.  24,  1 863  ;  non-resident. 

HAWKES,    JOHN. 
Mustered  out  Aug.  24,  1863  ;  non-resident. 
KINGMAN,    WILLIAM    W. 
Mustered  out  Aug.  24,  1863  ;  non-resident. 

KNIGHTS,    HENRY    C. 
Mustered  out  Aug.  24,  1863  ;  non-resident. 

Co.  F. 

PRIVATES. 

GALLAGHER,    JOHN. 
Deserted  Oct.  20,  1862,  at  Boxford,  Mass.;  non-resident. 


*  Also  served  one  hundred  days  in  the  Eighth  Regiment  in   1864 ;  see 
chap.  VIII. 

*  Resident  of  Maiden ;  re-enlisted  in  Co.  K,  Fifty-Ninth  Regiment ;  lost 
a  leg  before  Petersburg,  June  17,  1864, 


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WILSON,    JOHN. 
Deserted  Oct  20,  1862,  at  Boxford,  Mass. ;  non-resident. 

At  the  commencement  of  the  year  1863,  Massachusetts 
had  sent  into  the  field  forty-six  thousand  nine  hundred 
and  twenty  (46,920)  three  years'  men,  sixteen  thousand 
eight  hundred  and  thirty-seven  (16,837)  nine  months' 
men,  and  three  thousand  seven  hundred  and  thirty-six 
{?»7Z^)  three  months'  men  ;  making  a  total  of  sixty-seven 
thousand  four  hundred  and  ninety-three  (67,493)  men  ; 
thirteen  thousand  six  hundred  and  eighteen  (13,618)  men 
had  also  entered  into  the  naval  service  of  the  United 
States,  for  which  Massachusetts  had  received  no  credit, 
making  a  total  number  of  men  furnished  by  Massachu- 
setts of  eighty-one  thousand  one  hundred  and  eleven 
(81,111). 

General  Schouler  says  of  Massachusetts  at  this  time  : 

She  had  given  martyrs  to  the  great  cause  on  nearly  every 
battlefield  ;  many  had  their  limbs  severed  from  their  bodies  ; 
many  households  had  been  made  desolate  ;  many  stood  by  the 
butts  of  their  muskets,  keeping  watch  and  ward,  facing  the 
enemy  from  the  falls  of  the  Potomac  to  the  delta  of  the  Missis- 
sippi. Some  were  in  prison,  some  were  in  hospitals,  some  were 
in  tents,  some  swinging  in  their  hammocks  at  the  mouths  of  riv- 
ers, to  prevent  blockade  runners  from  supplying  the  enemy. 

And  Governor  Andrew,  in  his  address  to  the  Legisla- 
ture at  the  beginning  of  1863,  eloquently  refers  to  the 
part  taken  by  Massachusetts  men  ;  after  recapitulating 
the  many  battlefields  from  "  Big  Bethel "  and  "  Cedar 
Mountain  "  to  "  Baton  Rouge  "  and  "  Antietam,"  he  con- 
tinues : 

Through  all  the  capricious  fortunes  of  the  war  the  regiments 
of  Massachusetts  have  borne  her  flag  by  the  side  of  the  banner 


NUMBER    OF    MEN    FURNISHED.  69 

of  the  Union.  And,  beyond  the  Atlantic  slope,  every  battle- 
field has  drunk  the  blood  of  her  sons,  nurtured  among  her  hills 
and  sands,  from  which  in  adventurous  manhood  they  turned 
their  footsteps  to  the  AVest,  Officers  and  enlisted  men  have 
vied  with  each  other  in  deeds  of  valor.  The  flag,  whose  stan- 
dard-bearer, shot  down  in  battle,  tossed  it  from  his  dying  hand, 
nerved  by  undying  patriotism,  has  been  caught  by  the  comrade, 
who  in  his  turn  has  closed  his  eyes  for  the  last  time  upon  its 
starry  folds  as  another  hero-martyr  clasped  the  splintered  staff 
and  rescued  the  symbol  at  once  of  country  and  of  blood-bought 
fame. 

How  can  fleeting  words  of  human  praise  gild  the  record  of 
their  glory  ?  Our  eyes  suffused  with  tears,  and  blood  retreating 
to  the  heart,  stirred  with  unwonted  thrill,  speak  with  the  elo- 
quence of  nature,  uttered  but  unexpressed.  From  the  din  of 
the  battle  they  have  passed  to  the  peace  of  eternity.  Farewell ! 
warrior,  citizen,  patriot,  lover,  friend,  —  whether  in  the  humbler 
ranks  or  bearing  the  sword  of  official  power,  whether  private, 
captain,  surgeon  or  chaplain,  for  all  these  in  the  heady  fight 
have  passed  away,  —  hail !  and  farewell !  Each  hero  must 
sleep  serenely  on  the  field  where  he  fell  in  a  cause  "  sacred  to 
liberty  and  the  rights  of  mankind." 

Melrose  had  sent  into  the  service  up  to  this  time,  —  Jan- 
uary I,  1863,  —  one  hundred  and  twenty-six  (126)  three 
years'  men,  five  (5)  of  whom  were  commissioned  officers  ; 
seventy-nine  (79)  nine  months'  men,  and  five  (5)  three 
months'  men  ;  and  had  also  furnished  seven  (7)  men  for 
the  navy  ;  one  of  whom  had  been  transferred  from  the 
army ;  one  discharged  and  enlisted  in  the  army,  and  four 
of  whom  were  commissioned  officers ;  making  a  total 
number  furnished  of  two  hundred  and  sixteen  (216)  men. 

The  officers  in  the  army  were :  Second  Lieutenant  Gur- 
don  McKay,  of  the  Twenty-Second  Regiment ;  Second 


70  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Lieutenant  George  T.  Martin,  of  the  Thirty-Eighth  Regi- 
ment ;  First  Lieutenant  Archibald  Bogle,  of  the  Seven- 
teenth Regiment;  Captain  Joseph  R.  Simonds,  of  the 
Seventeenth  Regiment,  and  First  Lieutenant  J.  Wesley- 
Jones,  of  the  Twelfth  U.  S.  Infantry.  In  the  navy,  Act- 
ing Master's  Mate  N.  Mayo  Dyer,  Acting  Ensign  James 
F.  Perkins,  Acting  Ensign  Edward  A.  Small,  and  Lieu- 
tenant Smith  W.  Nichols,  Jr. 

The  total  quota  of  Melrose  to  this  date,  of  three  years' 
and  nine  months'  men,  was  one  hundred  and  eighty-four 
(184),  and  we  had  furnished  two  hundred  and  ten  (210) 
men  for  those  periods  of  service. 

On  the  22d  of  September  of  this  year, —  1862,  —  was 
issued  the  great  Proclamation  by  President  Lincoln, 
declaring  that  the  slaves  of  all  persons  in  States  which,  on 
the  1st  day  of  January,  1863,  should  be  in  rebellion,  "  shall 
be  thenceforth  and  forever  free."  Concerning  this  act  it 
has  been  eloquently  said  : 

"  As  yet  the  policy  of  the  Nation  was  undefined.  Nor  did  it 
reach  the  dignity  of  positive  justice,  clearly  pronounced,  until, 
by  the  great  Proclamation  of  Liberty,  the  Government  became 
anchored  to  an  immortal  thought,  and  decreed  Emancipation. 
By  that  act  the  President  ascended  a  height  more  lofty  than 
Federal  Hill.  He  rose  to  the  serene  heights  of  Zion,  received 
light  and  knowledge  and  power  from  an  Eternal  Source,  fixed 
by  a  word  the  moral  judgment  of  mankind  in  sympathy  with 
our  national  cause,  secured  the  verdict  of  history  and  the 
prayers  of  the  good  in  every  land,  and  humbly  awaited  *  the 
gracious  favor  of  Almighty  God.'  " 


VI. 

i863. 


Three  Years*  Men. 

"  The  Sun  of  Liberty  shall  ne'er 
In  clouds  and  darkness  set ; 
Her  sons  are  brave,  —  they  know  no  fear, 
And  God  is  with  us  yet." 


An  Enrollment  or  Conscription  Act  having  been  passed 
by  Congress,  for  the  purpose  of  recruiting  the  forces  in 
the  field,  and  making  up  deficiencies  on  the  calls  previ- 
ously made,  a  new  enrollment  of  the  men  liable  to  do 
military  duty  was  ordered,  and  a  draft  of  such  enrolled 
men  to  be  made  in  July,  1863. 

These  enrolled  men  were  divided  into  two  classes.  The 
first  class  comprised  all  persons  subject  to  do  military  duty 
between  the  ages  of  twenty  and  thirty-five  years,  and  all 
unmarried  persons  subject  to  do  military  duty  between 
thirty-five  and  forty-five.  The  second  class  comprised 
the  married  men  who  were  subject  to  do  military  duty 
and  were  more  than  thirty-five,  but  under  forty-five  years 
of  age. 

On  the  25th  of  May,  Provost-Marshal  Herrick  appointed 
Mr.  Stephen  Shelton  "  Enrolling  Officer  for  Sub-District 
No.  9,  Town  of  Melrose,"  who  immediately  entered  upon 


72  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

the  duties  of  his  office  ;  ^  and  by  this  enrollment  it  was 
ascertained  that  there  were  in  our  town,  at  this  time, 
exclusive  of  those  then  in  the  service,  one  hundred  and 
sixty-two  (162)  persons  of  the  first  class,  and  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-one  (121)  of  the  second  class.^  In  the 
whole  State  it  was  ascertained  that  there  were  one  hun- 
dred and  seven  thousand,  three  hundred  and  eighty-six 
(107,386)  persons  of  the  first  class,  and  fifty-six  thou- 
sand, seven  hundred  ninety-two  (56,792)  of  the  second 
class  ;  a  total  of  one  hundred  and  sixty-four  thousand,  one 
hundred  and  seventy-eight  (164,178). 

This  draft  was  to  be  made  from  the  enrolled  of  the  first 
class. 

The  result  of  this  first  draft  of  the  Melrose  men  is 
given  on  another  page.  Owing  to  the  great  number  of 
exemptions  that  were  made,  the  additions  to  the  men  in 
the  service,  by  means  of  the  draft,  were  small ;  conse- 
quently, to  carry  on  this  gigantic  struggle  with  treason,  it 
was  found  necessary  to  issue  another  call,  which  was  made 
by  the  President,  October  17,  1863,  for  three  hundred 
thousand  (300,000)  more  troops,  to  serve  for  three  years, 
or  during  the  war. 

The  quota  of  Massachusetts,  on  this  last  call,  was  found 
to  be  fifteen  thousand,  one  hundred  and  twenty-six  (15,- 
126)  men  ;  and  that  of  Melrose  to  be  twenty-four  (24) 
men. 

It  was  determined  that  another  draft  in  Melrose  should 
be  avoided  if  possible.     A  Town  meeting  was  held  Novem- 


*  Mr.  Shelton  was  re-appointed  to  the  same  position  May  6,  1864,  and  he 
made  the  necessary  returns  of  the  additions  and  changes  in  the  cnroUment 
for  that  year.     For  letter  of  instructions,  see  appendix  H. 

*  For  the  names  of  the  enrolled,  see  appendix  D. 


OUR    RECRUITING    COMMITTEE.  73 

ber  14th,  at  which  Hon.  N.  B.  Bryant  was  chosen  Moder- 
ator. It  was  voted  that  a  Committee  of  four  be  appointed 
by  the  Chair,  which,  in  conjunction  with  the  Selectmen, 
•—John  H,  Clark,  William  B,  Burgess  and  George  M. 
Fletcher,  —  should  constitute  a  Recruiting  Committee, 
with  full  powers  to  act  in  such  manner  as  would  best 
enable  the  Town  to  fill  its  quota  under  the  recent  call  of 
the  President.  Stephen  W.  Shelton,  Isaac  Emerson,  Jr., 
Rufus  Smith  and  Charles  H.  Isburgh  were  appointed  to 
act  on  this  Committee,  and  three  thousand  dollars  (^3,000)  ■ 
were  appropriated  to  defray  its  expenses. 

During  the  latter  part  of  the  year  1863,  and  the  begin- 
ning of  1864,  re-enlistments  of  the  men  already  in  service 
commenced,  and  the  Recruiting  Committee  secured  quite 
a  number  of  such  re-enlistments,^  thus  reducing  the  quota. 

The  Fifty-Ninth  Veteran  Regiment  was  also  forming  at 
this  time,  and  a  number  of  the  men  that  enhsted  in  this 
regiment  were  obtained ;  also  a  number,  —  some  of  them 
our  own  citizens, —  that  entered  the  Third  Heavy  Artillery. 

We  now  give  the  rest  of  the  names  of  those  who  entered, 
or  re-entered,  the  service,  in  the  Massachusetts  regiments, 
at  or  soon  after  this  time,  counting  on  our  quota.  Where- 
ever  re-enlistments  of  our  men  took  place  in  regiments 
already  mentioned  on  previous  pages,  such  re-enlistments 
are  there  stated,  and  do  not  appear  here.  As  heretofore, 
no  special  effort  has  been  made  to  obtain  items  concern- 
ing non-residents. 


'  All  who  thus  re-enlisted  were  called  "  Veteran  Volunteers,"  received  a 
thirty-days'  furlough,  a  United  States  bounty  of  four  hundred  dollars,  and, 
as  an  honorable  distinction,  "  service  chevrons  "  were  authorized  by  the  War 
Department.  Over  136,000  tried  soldiers  were  thus  secured  to  the  service. 
10,000  re-enlisted  in  Massachusetts. 


74  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

FIFTEENTH    REGIMENT.i 
Co.  A. 

PRIVATE. 

ARNOLD,    CHARLES    H. 

Non-resident. 

Co.  B. 

PRIVATE. 

WALSH,    THOMAS. 

Transferred  to  Fifteenth  Battalion,  July  12,   1864;  non- 
resident. 

FIFTY-NINTH     REGIMENT.2 

PRIVATES. 

BARRY,    JOHN. 

Non-resident. 

FRISBY,    JOHN. 
Non-resident. 

HAGGERTY,    DANIEL. 

Non-resident;  discharged  for  disability,  Dec.  15,  1863. 

LEVER,    RICHARD. 

Killed  at  "  Battle  of  Spottsylvania,"  May  1 2,  1 864. 

JENKINS,    GEORGE. 
Non-resident. 


*  The  Fifteenth  Massachusetts  left  the  State  Aug.  8,  1861.  Was  in  battles 
of  Ball's  Bluff,  of  the  Peninsula,  and  most  of  the  other  battles  participated 
in  by  the  "  Army  of  the  Potomac." 

*  The  Fifty-Ninth  Veteran  Massachusetts  left  the  State  April  26,  1864.  It 
took  part  in  the  following  engagements  :  Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  North 
Anna  River,  Cool  Arbor,  Petersburg,  Weldon  Railroad,  Poplar  Spring 
Church,  Hatcher's  Run  and  Fort  Stedman. 


THE    FIFTY-NINTH    REGIMENT.  ']  f^ 

MULCOTT,    ADOLPHUS. 
Non-resident 

O'REGAN,    MICHAEL. 
Non-resident. 

.     Co.  B.    . 

PRIVATES. 

HALPINE,    BARTHOLOMEW. 

Non-resident. 

LEWIS,    WALTER    H. 
Non-resident. 

JACKSON,    HENRY    M. 
Non-resident. 

JOHNSON,    WILLIAM    A. 
Non-resident. 

PERKINS,    BENJAMIN    W. 

Non-resident;  discharged  April  i8,  1865. 

Co.  D. 

PRIVATES. 

MARRA,    JAMES. 
Non-resident. 

PEASLEY,    CHARLES    D. 
Non-resident. 

Co.  F. 

PRIVATES. 

ALDRIDGE,   WILLIAM    H. 
Non-resident. 

RYAN,    MICHAEL. 
Non-resident. 

YOUNG,    JOHN    W. 
Non-resident 


^d  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Co.  G. 

LIEUTENANT. 

MORSE,    GEORGE    J. 

Commissioned  2d  Lieutenant  Oct.  22,  1863  ;  promoted 
1st  Lieutenant  March  4,  1864;  killed  at  the  "Battle  of 
Spottsylvania,"  May  12,  1864.* 

Co.  H. 

SERGEANT, 

STONE,    HENRY. 

Wounded  through  the  hand  at  the  "  Battle  of  the  Wilder- 
ness," May  6,  1 864  ;  taken  prisoner  at  Weldon  Railroad, 
Aug.  20,  1864;  held  in  "  Libby  Prison"  a  month  and 
then  exchanged  ;  mustered  out  with  the  regiment,  July 
30,  1865. 

THIRD     HEAVY     ARTILLERY.^ 
Co.  C. 

PRIVATES. 

CHEEVER,    AUGUSTUS    L. 
Discharged  March  9, 1865,  for  disability. 
GROVER,    ANDREW    J. 
Mustered  out  with  the  regiment,  Sept.  18,  1865. 


*  For  biographical  sketch  see  "  Roll  of  Honor." 

*  The  Third  Massachusetts  Regiment  of  Heavy  Artillery  was  composed 
of  unattached  companies,  part  of  which  were  on  duty  in  the  coast  defences 
of  this  State  ;  in  the  fall  of  1864  the  regiment  was  sent  to  Washington,  and 
served  in  its  Forts  until  mustered  out,  Sept  18,  1865. 


THIRD    HEAVY    ARTILLERY.  77 

GROVER,    GEORGE    W.,    JR. 
Mustered  out  Sept.  i8,  1865. 

HAMMOND,    GEORGE. 
Transferred  to  navy,  July  28,  1864. 1 

RICHARDSON,    WILLIAM    H. 
Mustered  out  Sept.  18,  1865. 

Co.  F. 

PRIVATES. 

DAVIS,    JOHN   W. 

Deserted  at  Fort  Stephens,  D.  C,  June  23,  1865  ;  non- 
resident. 

DAVIS,    LOAMI    G. 

Left  the  regiment,  June  18,  1865,  by  permission. 

FARGO,    CHARLES    O. 

Discharged  March  10,  1865,  for  disabiUty.^ 

Co.  K. 

PRIVATES. 

REARDON,    LAWRENCE. 
Mustered  out  Sept.  1 8,  1 865  ;  non-resident. 

TURCK,    JOHN. 
Discharged  July  29,  1864,  for  disability  ;  non-resident. 


*  See  chap.  IX. 

*  Served  previously  in  the  Tenth  Maine  Regiment ;  severely  wounded  in 
the  hip  at  "Battle  of  Cedar  Mountain,"  Aug.  9,  1862  ;  discharged  Feb.  10, 
1863. 


jS  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

FOURTH     HEAVY    ARTILLERY.i 
Co.  C. 

LIEUTENANT. 

MARTIN,    GEORGE  T. 

Commissioned  Senior  ist  Lieutenant  Aug,  i6,  1864;  died 
at  Massachusetts  General  Hospital,  March  13,  1865,  of 
pyaemia.^ 

Co.  K. 

LIEUTENANT. 

NICHOLS,  GEORGE  G.^ 
Commissioned  ist  Lieutenant  Twenty-Fifth  Un.  Co. 
Heavy  Artillery,  —  afterwards  Co.  K,  Fourth  Regiment, 
— Aug.  18,  1864;  appointed  Regimental  Quartermas- 
ter Dec.  17,  1864;  appointed  Acting  Assistant  Quar- 
termaster, Third  Brigade,  DeRussey's  Division,  on 
Staff  Colonel  William  S.  King,  Commanding  Brigade, 
Dec.  20,  1864;  mustered  out,  June  17,  1865. 

FIFTY-FOURTH     REGIMENT.'' 
Co.  A. 

PRIVATES. 

BUSH,    HENRY. 
Died  from  burns,  Feb.  23,  1863  ;  non-resident. 

*  The  Fourth  Massachusetts  Heavy  Artillery,  like  the  Third,  was  com- 
posed of  unattached  companies  and  sent  to  Washington,  and  served  in  its 
defences  until  its  muster-out,  June  17,  1865.  It  was  raised  for  one  year's 
service. 

'  For  biographical  sketch  see  "  Roll  of  Honor." 

^  Served  nine  months  in  1862-3,  ^"  Forty-Second  Regiment,  but  on  Bos- 
ton's quota. 

■♦  The  Fifty- Fourth  Massachusetts  was  the  first  colored  regiment  raised  in 
Massachusetts,  and  left  the  State  May  28,  1863,  and  took  part  in  the  follow- 
ing engagements  :  Fort  Wagner  and  the  several  engagements  before  Charles- 
ton, Olustee,  James  Island,  Honey  Hill  and  Boykin's  Mills. 


THE    FIFTY-SIXTH    REGIMENT.  79 

JOHNSON,    WILLIAM    H. 
Non-resident.i 

FIFTY'SIXTH     REGIMENT.2 
Co.  B. 

PRIVATE. 

YORK,    BENJAMIN    F. 

Taken  prisoner  at  "  Mine  Explosion,"  July  30,  1 864  ;  at 
Danville,  Va.,  eight  months  ;  exchanged  April  i,  1865  ; 
mustered  out  June  16,  1865. 

At  the  end  of  the  year  1863,  Massachusetts  had  fur- 
nished for  the  army  in  the  field  a  total  of  eighty-three 
thousand,  nine  hundred  and  thirty-two  (83,932)  men ; 
sixty-three  thousand,  three  hundred  and  fifty-nine  (63,359) 
of  which  were  for  the  three  years'  service,  sixteen  thou- 
sand, eight  hundred  and  thirty-seven  (16,837)  for  the  nine 
months'  service,  and  three  thousand  seven  hundred  and 
thirty-six  (3,736)  for  the  three  months'  service ;  and  from 
the  commencement  of  the  Rebellion  to  the  end  of  this 
year,  seventeen  thousand,  three  hundred  and  four  (17,304) 
men  had  entered  the  navy,  for  which  Massachusetts  had, 
as  yet,  received  no  credit  on  its  quotas ;  this  made  a  grand 


*  The  whole  number  of  negro  troops  commissioned  and  enlisted  during 
the  war  was  186,017  ;  the  largest  number  in  the  service  at  anv  one  time  was 
123,156.  The  State  in  which  the  largest  number  of  colored  soldiers  was  re- 
cruited or  drafted  was  Louisiana,  viz  :  24,052  ;  the  smallest  number,  Texas, 
viz  :  45.     Massachusetts  furnished  4,987 ;  Melrose,  2. 

*  The  Fifty-Sixth  Massachusetts  Veteran  Regiment  left  the  State  March 
21,  1864,  and  took  part  in  the  Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  North  Anna  River, 
Cool  Arbor,  Petersburg,  Weldon  Railroad,  Poplar  Spring  Church,  Hatcher's 
Run  and  Siege  of  Petersburg. 


80  THE    MELROSE     MEMORIAL. 

total  of  one  hundred  and  one  thousand,  two  hundred  and 
thirty-six  (101,236)  men  furnished  by  the  State,  up  to  the 
end  of  the  year  1863,  for  the  United  States  service. 

The  following  commissioned  officers  from  Melrose  were 
in  the  service  at  this  time :  In  the  army,  Second  Lieuten- 
ant George  J.  Morse,  of  the  Fifty-Ninth  Regiment ;  First 
Lieutenant  J.  Wesley  Jones,  of  the  Twelfth  U.  S.  Infan- 
try ;  Captain  Joseph  R.  Simonds,  of  the  Seventeenth  Reg- 
iment ;  Captain  J.  Spencer  Drayton,  and  Major  Archibald 
Bogle,  of  the  Thirty-Fifth  U.  S.  Colored  Troops.  In  the 
navy.  Acting  Ensigns  N.  Mayo  Dyer,  James  F.  Perkins  and 
Edward  A.  Small,  and  Lieutenant  Smith  W.  Nichols,  Jr. 

Of  the  position  held  by  Massachusetts  in  this  great 
struggle  at  this  time.  Governor  Andrew  thus  eloquently 
speaks  in  his  address  to  the  Legislature  on  the  8th  of  Jan- 
uary, 1864: 

But  the  heart  swells  with  unwonted  emotion  when  we  remem- 
ber our  sons  and  brothers,  whose  constant  valor  has  sustained 
on  the  field,  during  nearly  three  years  of  war,  the  cause  of  our 
country,  of  civilization,  and  liberty.  Our  volunteers  have  rep- 
resented Massachusetts,  during  the  year  just  ended,  on  almost 
every  field  and  in  every  department  of  the  army  where  our  flag 
has  been  unfurled.  At  Chancellorsville,  Gettysburg,  Vicksburg, 
Port  Hudson  and  Fort  Wagner,  at  Chickamauga,  Knoxville  and 
Chattanooga,  —  under  Hooker,  and  Meade,  and  Banks,  and  Gil- 
more,  and  Rosecrans,  Burnside  and  Grant,  —  in  every  scene  of 
danger  and  of  duty,  along  the  Atlantic  and  the  Gulf,  on  the 
Tennessee,  the  Cumberland,  the  Mississippi  and  the  Rio  Grande, 
—  under  Dupont,  and  Dahlgren,  and  Foote,  and  Farragut,  and 
Porter,  —  the  sons  of  Massachusetts  have  borne  their  part,  and 
paid  the  debt  of  patriotism  and  valor.  Ubiquitous  as  the  stock 
they  descend  from,  national  in  their  opinions  and  universal  in 
their  sympathies,  they  have  fought  shoulder  to  shoulder  with  men 


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81 


of  all  sections  and  of  every  extraction.  On  the  ocean,  on  the 
rivers,  on  the  land,  on  the  heights  where  they  thundered  down 
from  the  clouds  of  Lookout  Mountain  the  defiance  of  the  skies, 
they  have  graven  with  their  swords  a  record  imperishable. 

The  muse  herself  demands  the  lapse  of  silent  years  to 
soften,  by  the  influences  of  time,  her  too  keen  and  poignant 
realization  of  the  scenes  of  war — the  pathos,  the  heroism,  the 
fierce  joy,  the  grief,  of  battle.  But,  during  the  ages  to  come, 
she  will  brood  over  their  memory.  Into  the  hearts  of  her  con- 
secrated priests  will  breathe  the  inspirations  of  lofty  and  undy- 
ing beauty,  sublimity  and  truth,  in  all  the  glowing  forms  of 
speech,  of  literature  and  plastic  art.  By  the  homely  traditions 
of  the  fireside,  —  by  the  head  stones  in  the  churchyard,  conse- 
crated to  those  whose  forms  repose  far  off  in  rude  graves  by  the 
Rappahannock,  or  sleep  beneath  the  sea,  —  embalmed  in  the 
memories  of  succeeding  generations  of  parents  and  children, 
the  heroic  dead  will  live  on  in  immortal  youth.  By  their 
names,  their  character,  their  service,  their  fate,  their  glory,  they 
cannot  fail ; 

"  They  never  fail  who  die 
In  a  great  cause  ;  the  block  may  soak  their  gore  ; 
Their  heads  may  sodden  in  the  sun,  their  limbs 
Be  strung  to  city  gates  and  castle  walls  ; 
But  still  their  spirit  walks  abroad.     Though  years 
Elapse,  and  others  share  as  dark  a  doom, 
They  but  augment  the  deep  and  sweeping  thoughts 
Which  overpower  all  others,  and  conduct 
The  world  at  last  to  Freedom.  " 


VII. 

1864-5- 


Our  glorious  banner  no  traitor  shall  mar, 
By  effacing  a  stripe,  or  destroying  a  star ! 

Francis  De  Haes  jfanvier. 


At  the  annual  Town  Meeting  in  March,  1 864,  Mr.  Isaac 
Emerson,  Jr.,  was  excused,  at  his  own  request,  from  serv- 
ing longer  on  the  Recruiting  Committee,  and  Mr.  William 
E.  Fuller  was  elected  Selectman  in  place  of  Mr.  George 
M.  Fletcher  ;  and  the  Recruiting  Committee  now  con- 
sisted of  the  following  gentlemen:  —  Colonel  John  H. 
Clark,  Chairman  and  Recruiting  Agent,^  William  B.  Bur- 


'  Provost-Marshal's  Office, 
6th  District,  Mass., 
.  Lawrence,  November  6, 1863. . 

To  the  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Selectmen  of  Melrose :  — 

Sir,  —  You  are  hereby  informed  that,  under  the  authority  of  the  Provost- 
Marshal  General  U.  S.,  and  by  direction  of  Major  F.  N.  Clarke,  A.  A.,  Pro- 
vost-Marshal General  of  this  State,  I  have  appointed  you  a  Recruiting 
Agent  for  your  town,  in  accordance  with  the  Regulations  for  the  Bureau  of 
the  Provost-Marshal  General  of  Oct.  28,  1863. 

Please  report  to  me  personally,  if  you  accept  the  appointment  If  you  do 
not  accept,  so  inform  me  by  mail  immediately. 

Very  respectfully, 

Your  ob't  servant, 

H.  G.  Herrick, 
Captain  and  Provost-Marshal,  6th  Dist.  Mass. 


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gess,  William  E.  Fuller,  Stephen  W,  Shelton,  Rufus  Smith 
and  Charles  H.  Isburgh.  At  a  subsequent  Town  Meet- 
ing, held  April  nth,  it  was  voted  that  this  same  Recruit- 
ing Committee  continue  its  labors,  and  four  thousand 
dollars  (;^4,ooo)  were  appropriated  for  its  use.  This  Com- 
mittee acted  throughout  the  continuance  of  the  war ;  and 
by  its  spirited  and  strenuous  exertions,  —  and  also  of  the 
Committee  as  previously  constituted,  —  no  other  draft  1 
was  ever  needed  in  order  to  fill  our  several  quotas  under 
the  calls  of  the  President,  issued  in  October,  1863,  and 
February,  March,  July  and  December,  1864,  in  which  calls 
a  million  and  a  half  of  men  were  asked  for.  A  second 
draft  was  made,  of  the  enrolled  men,  in  April,  1864,  but 
none  of  the  drafted  were  required  to  report,  as  the  quotas 
were  then  filled.^ 

Various  measures  were  taken  to  aid  this  Committee  in 
its  efforts  to  procure  men,  with  which  to  fill  our  different 
quotas.  On  the  6th  of  June,  1864,  a  Town  Meeting  was 
held,  at  whic"h  Colonel  John  H.  Clark  was  chosen  Moder- 
ator ;  and,  on  motion  of  Mr.  Walter  Babb,  it  was  voted  : 

That  the  Town  of  Melrose  appropriate  the  sum  of  ten  thou- 
sand dollars  ($10,000)  for  the  purpose  of  procuring  recruits  for 
any  future  calls  there  may  be  made  by  the  President  of  the 
United  States  for  soldiers,  and  to  make  up  any  deficiencies  that 
there  is,  or  has  occurred,  in  the  last  call  for  volunteers ;  and 
that  the  present  Recruiting  Committee  of  the  Town  of  Melrose 
proceed  immediately  to  recruit  or  procure  men  in  anticipation 
of  the  next  call,  or  calls,  that  may  be  made  by  the  President  of 
the  United   States.     And  that  the  Selectmen  be  instructed  to 


*  One  draft  took  place  in  July,  1863  ;  for  names  of  the  citizens  drawn,  and 
the  disposition  of  the  same,  see  chap.  X. 

'  For  names  of  the  citizens  drawn  at  this  time,  see  chap.  X. 


84  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

procure  the  bodies  of  all  those  of  our  citizen  soldiers  who  have 
or  may  lose  their  lives  in  this  war,  and  have  them  transported 
to  their  relatives  or  friends. 

And  it  was  also  voted  : 

That  the  Town  Treasurer  be  instructed  to  borrow,  from  time 
to  time,  such  sums  of  money  as  might  be  required  of  the  amount 
appropriated. 

The  raising  of  money  for  this  purpose,  in  this  manner, 
was  illegal,  as  the  Legislature  of  Massachusetts  had  pro- 
vided, by  the  act  of  March  16,  1864,  that  cities  and  towns 
might  raise  money  by  taxation,  or  otherwise,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  procuring  volunteers,  and  pay  to  each  one  enlisted 
into  the  service  as  a  part  of  the  quota  of  said  cities  and 
towns,  a  sum  not  exceeding  one  hundred  and  twenty-five 
dollars  (^125). 

A  petition  was  drawn  up,  signed  by  thirty-four  citizens, 
and  presented  to  the  Supreme  Judicial  Court,  asking  for 
an  injunction  on  the  proceedings  at  the  above  Town 
Meeting.  Such  an  injunction  was  issued  by  Chief  Justice 
George  T.  Bigelow,  on  the  nth  of  June,  1864.  This  was 
afterwards  so  far  modified  as  to  permit  the  paying  of  one 
hundred  and  twenty-five  dollars  (^125),  by  the  Recruiting 
Committee,  to  each  recruit  enlisted  and  accepted  by  the 
United  States  authorities  under  any  call  of  the  President 
made  between  the  first  day  of  March,  1864,  and  the  first 
day  of  March,  1865,  as  a  part  of  the  quota  of  the  town  of 
Melrose  under  said  calls. 

At  this  time  recruits  for  the  army  cost  a  larger  sum  than 
one  hundred  and  twenty-five  dollars  ($125);  therefore  a  cit- 
izens' meeting  was  called,  to  take  into  consideration  the 
best  manner  of  raising  a  sum  of  money,  as  a  recruiting 


RECRUITING    FUND    MEETINGS, 


8; 


fund,  to  aid  the  Committee  in  the  furnishing  of  men  for  our 
quotas.  There  was  a  very  large  attendance  at  this  meet- 
ing, and  it  was  decided  to  raise  the  money  needed  by  sub- 
scription. A  paper  was  drawn  up,  which  was  headed  by 
Mr;  Wingate  P.  Sargent ;  and  at  this  and  subsequent 
times,  a  sum  of  nearly  six  thousand  dollars  (^6,000)  was 
raised  for  recruiting  purposes,  to  be  expended  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Recruiting  Committee. 

At  the  second  meeting,  held  for  the  purpose  of  raising 
this  fund,  the  following  gentlemen  were  chosen  a  Com- 
mittee to  collect  the  amounts  already  subscribed,  and 
to  solicit  additional  subscriptions  from  the  citizens. 
Messrs.  Wingate  P.  Sargent,  Daniel  Norton,  Jr.,  Levi  S. 
Gould,  Isaac  Emerson,  Jr.,  Thomas  A.  Long  and  Joseph 
D.  Wilde.  Mr.  Sargent  was  appointed  Treasurer,  and, 
after  the  collections  were  made,  the  money  was  paid  over 
by  him  to  Colonel  Clark,  as  Chairman  of  the  Recruiting 
Committee. 

The  names  of  the  subscribers  to  this  fund,  and  the 
amounts  paid,  are  as  follows  : 


Wingate  P.  Sargent 
Daniel  Norton,  Jr.  . 

1^250  00 
130  00 

Rufus  Smith    . 

100  00 

Alverse  L.  White    . 

100  00 

Isaac  Emerson,  Jr.  . 

100  00 

Wickham  C.  McNish 

100  00 

Samuel  E.  Sewall    . 

100  00 

Daniel  W.  Gooch     . 

100  00 

Daniel  W.  Foster    . 

100  00 

Samuel  S.  Houghton 
Joseph  D.  Wilde      . 
Elisha  F.  Sears 

80  00 
75  00 
75  00 

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Ralph  Warren 

75  00 

Charles  H.  Isburgh 

75  oo 

George  A.  Mansfield 

75  oo 

Nathaniel  J.  Bartlett 

75  oo 

George  G.  Wheeler  . 

6o  oo 

Jeremiah  Crowley    . 

50  00 

William  H.  Allen     . 

50  00 

Edgar  M.  Stevens    . 

50  00 

Levi  S.  Gould 

50  00 

Ira  H.  Bickford 

50  00 

Frank  O.  Dame 

50  00 

George  Hart   . 

50  00 

William  F.  Morse    . 

50  00 

Oliver  Whyte  . 

50  00 

Gardner  Wheeler     . 

50  00 

Walter  Littlefield,  Jr. 

50  00 

Henry  A.  Norris 

50  00 

Napoleon  B.  Bryant 

50  00 

Andrew  P.  Trott     . 

50  00 

R.  Watson  Emerson 

50  00 

Augustus  Barrett    . 

50  00 

John  Baldwin  .         .         . 

50  00 

Joseph  H.  Greene    . 

50  00 

William  H.  Stone    . 

50  00 

Simeon  Locke 

50  00 

Alonzo  V.  Lynde     . 

50  00 

George  Emerson 

50  00 

George  F.  Stone 

50  00 

Frank  A.  Messenger 

50  00 

Oren  H.  Peck 

45  00 

Joseph  A.  Fairbanks 

40  00 

George  M.  Fletcher 

30  00 

S.  W.  Heald    . 

30  00 

CITIZENS     RECRUITING    FUND. 


87 


James  M.  Beckett    . 
Edward  R.  Knights 
John  L.  Allen 
Jarvis  P.  Hudson     . 
Albert  P.  Perkins    . 
Thomas  A.  Long     . 
Erastus  F.  Bradford 
Benjamin  F.  Greene 
George  N.  Noyes     . 
Dr.  George  Macomber 
Joel  Bowker 
Charles  H.  Blaisdell 
Daniel  Jefferson 
Dr.  Moses  Parker    . 
Allen  C.  Goss 
Fernando  C.  Taylor 
Joseph  E.  Westgate 
James  A.  Barrett 
George  C.  Sargent 
Samuel  S.  Bugbee 
Anthony  Crosby 
John  H.  Clark 
George  Newhall 
William  O.  Lynde 
Charles  Larrabee 
John  S.  Higgins 
John  Shelton  . 
C.  Edgar  Buffum 
Henry  A,  Leonard 
Rufus  Leavitt 
Robert  J.  Chute 
Obadiah  S.  Edgerly 
Sargent  F.  Severence 


30  00 
30  00 
30  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  CX) 
25  CXD 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  CXD 
25  00 
25  CX> 
25  00 
25  00 
25    00 


88 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Liberty  Bigelow 

John  Conway,  Jr. 

Jonathan  Barrett 

Charles  Boardman 

John  W.  Cobb 

Elbridge  Gardner 

Peter  Edgerly 

Jeremiah  Martin 

Horatio  N.  Perkins 

George  F.  Boardman 

Josiah  P.  Mendum  . 

Stephen  Shelton 

Lewis  G.  Coburn     , 

Frederick  W.  A.  Rankin,  Jr. 

Thomas  J,  Kimball 

John  S.  Sewall 

Elbridge  H.  Goss 

John  W.  Tower 

George  R.  Forsythe 

P.  Russell  Ellis 

Sylvanus  Upham 

Charles  Furneaux 

Edward  B,  Newhall 

John  Smith 

Nelson  Cochran 

John  W.  Buttrick 

Daniel  O.  Morton 

Leonard  Lynde 

Henry  B.  Newhall 

Artemas  Barrett 

George  W.  Bartlett 

Robert  W.  Pierce 

George  W.  Pollock 


25  00 
25  00 

25  GO 
25  GO 
25  GO 
25  GO 
25  GO 
25  GO 
25  GO 
25  GO 
25  GO 
25  GO 
25  GO 
25  GO 
25  GO 
20  GO 
20  GO 
2G  GO 
20  GO 
20  GO 
20  GO 
2G  GO 
20  GO 
20  GO 
2G  GO 
20  GO 
20  GO 
20  GO 
20  CO 
20  GO 
20  GO 
2G  GO 
20  GO 


CITIZENS     RECRUITING    FUND. 


89 


George  B.  Sargent . 

20  00 

Caleb  Howard 

20  00 

Christopher  Kirmes 

20  00 

Joseph  Mclntire 

20  00 

James  Astle    . 

20  00 

John  L.  Andrews    . 

20  00 

William  F.  Poole     . 

20  00 

Lyell  T.  Terwillager 

20  00 

Alfred  W.  Sprague 

20  00 

William  H.  Wells    . 

20  00 

George  A.  Chipman 

20  00 

Isaiah  A.  Young 

20  00 

Benjamin  Underwood 

20  00 

Charles  A.  Messenger 

20  00 

Walter  Babb    . 

20  00 

Solomon  Severy 

15  00 

John  Q.  Adams 

15  00 

Alonzo  Patterson     . 

15  00 

Samuel  0.  Dearborn 

15  00 

Peter  Batchelder 

15  00 

Joel  Atwood    . 

15  00 

George  C.  Stantial  . 

15  00 

Thomas  W.  Chadbourne 

15  00 

Asa  H.  Jones . 

15  00 

Samuel  M.  Tourtellot 

15  00 

George  Hemminway 

14  00 

Samuel  Barker 

10  00 

Martin  Ellis     . 

10  00 

Walter  R.  Collins    . 

10  00 

William  B,  Burgess 

10  00 

Charles  E.  Keith     . 

10  00 

Samuel  F.  Summers 

10  00 

John  Robson  . 

10  00 

90 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Dr.  Benjamin  F.  Abbott 

10  oo 

William  W.  Vaughn 

lo  oo 

G,  W.  Oilman  . 

lo  oo 

Calvin  Stone    . 

lo  oo 

William  D.  Stratton 

lo  oo 

Sullivan  C.  Atwood 

lo  oo 

Calvin  N.  Chapin     . 

lo  oo 

Hiram  D.  Richardson 

lo  oo 

Azel  E.  Steele 

lo  oo 

Elbridge  Green 

10  oo 

Benjamin  Roach 

lo  oo 

Charles  P.  Lynde    . 

lo  oo 

Rev.  Nathan  P.  Selee 

lo  oo 

James  S.  Sturtevant 

lo  oo 

William  M.  Gilmore 

lo  oo 

James  Small    . 

lo  oo 

Alvin  Lynde    . 

10  oo 

William  Clark 

lo  oo 

J.  B.  Daniels    . 

lo  oo 

Lawrence  K.  Munn 

lo  oo 

Charles  F.  Bowker  . 

lo  oo 

Moses  A.  Noyes 

lo  oo 

Addison  Lane 

lo  oo 

Edmund  B.  Little    . 

lo  oo 

William  L.  Pierce    . 

lo  oo 

Royal  P.  Barry 

lo  oo 

Lewis  H.  Richardson 

10  oo 

Jabez  G.  Hayward  . 

10  oo 

Francis  Fountain     . 

lo  oo 

George  Sargent 

lo  oo 

Dexter  Pratt    . 

lo  oo 

George  C.  Brown     . 

10  oo 

Dr.  Abel  Astle 

lo  oo 

citizens'  recruiting  fund. 


91 


George  Lynde 

10  00 

Josiah  H.  Barker     . 

5  00 

Martin  B.  Loring     , 

5  00 

J.  T.  Marcy     . 

5  00 

George  W,  Fisher    . 

5  00 

Albert  A.  Gould      . 

5  00 

Benjamin  R.  Walker 

5  00 

Augustus  Brooks     . 

5  00 

William  Finnegan    . 

•. 

5  00 

Dennis  Finnegan     , 

5  00 

Joseph  C.  Bowker    . 

5  00 

Emery  Close   . 

5  00 

Ansel  B.  Pierce 

5  00 

George  Woodward  . 

5  00 

John  Hurley    . 

5  00 

Edward  Moore 

5  00 

Thomas  Co  whey 

5  00 

Thomas  Freeman    . 

5  00 

Solomon  L.  Howes 

5  00 

Paschal  E.  Burnham 

5  00 

John  P.  Buttrick      . 

5  00 

E,  B.  Southwick 

5  00 

Henry  Robinson 

5  00 

Charles  F.  Upham  . 

5  00 

Jasper  F.  Ferdinand 

5  00 

John  Gateley 

5  00 

Ai  Rowe 

5  00 

Walter  Murphy 

5  00 

Henry  J.  Robinson 

5  00 

Daniel  Conway 

5  00 

Joel  Snow 

5  00 

Carlon  Buffum 

5  00 

Osmore  Jenkins 

5  00 

92 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Robert  Wheeler 
William  A.  Lamson 
Aaron  Green  . 
Oliver  T.  Wentworth 
Reuben  T.  Haley    . 
Nathaniel  Howard  , 
Samuel  D.  Blanchard 

Total     . 


5 

GO 

5 

GO 

5 

GO 

3 

OG 

3 

GG 

3 

GG 

2 

OG 

$5,650  OG 


With  the  above  amount,  so  liberally  contributed  by  our 
citizens,  the  Recruiting  Committee  were  enabled  to  obtain 
all  the  men  required  to  fill  our  several  quotas,  by  adding 
to  the  amount  paid  to  each  recruit  by  the  Town,  —  one 
hundred  and  twenty-five  dollars  (1^125),  —  whatever  sum 
was  necessary ;  the  average  cost  of  a  recruit  at  this  time, 
in  addition  to  the  State  and  United  States  bounty,^  being 
about  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  (1^250). 

Very  few  of  our  own  citizens  enlisted  during  the  last 
■  year  of  the  war,  although  quite  a  number  that  were  already 
in  the  service  re-enlisted  ;  such  re-enlistments  counting  on 
our  quotas  the  same  as  new  enlistments. 

The  names  of  most  of  the  recruits  obtained  by  the 
Committee,  at  various  times  and  at  various  places,  during 
the  last  year  of  the  rebellion,  may  be  found  in  the  alpha- 
betical list  at  the  end  of  the  volume. 


'  Massachusetts  paid  no  bounty  until  1863;  then  $50 ;  Oct.  17,  1863,  it 
was  increased  to  $325.  The  United  States  paid  $100  bounty  until  Oct.  17, 
1863  ;  then  $300  to  new  recruits,  and  $400  to  veterans  until  July  18,  1864  ; 
afterwards  $100,  $200  and  $300  to  one,  two  and  three  years'  volunteers. 


VIII. 

1864.. 

One  Hundred  Days'  Men. 

"  All  hail  the  Stars  and  Stripes  !  "  ^  the  cry 
From  forest  home  to  ocean  shore, 
Ten  thousand  times  ten  thousand  hands 
Are  raised  to  free  that  flag  once  more. 
To  each  proud  heart  new  hope  is  sent, 

To  each  strong  arm  new  strength  is  given  ; 
And,  raised  aloft  from  every  home, 

The  Stars  and  Stripes  float  nearer  heaven. 

George  T.  Brown. 


In  July,  1864,  the  Secretary  of  War  made  a  tequisition 
upon  Massachusetts  for  five  militia  regiments,  to  serv^e 
for  the  period  of  one  hundred  days,  during  the  time  the 
re-enlisting  troops  were  having  their  furloughs  ;  and,  as 
usual,  the  Old  Bay  State  responded  with  alacrity,  and 
the  regiments  were  recruited  and  equipped  with  all  possi- 
ble despatch. 

These  one  hundred  days'  men  were  not  to  be  credited 
to  the  quota  of  Massachusetts,  but  it  was  conceded  that 
whoever  should  serve  for  this  length  of  time  should  not  be 
liable  to  the  draft  then  pending.     Five  thousand  four  hun- 


*  The  last  words  of  Luther  C.  Ladd,  of  the  Sixth  Regiment,  who  was 
killed  while  marching  through  Baltimore,  April  19,  1861. 


94  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

dred  and  sixty-one  (5,461)  men  went  forth  from  the  State 
under  this  call. 

As  heretofore,  under  the  various  demands  made,  Mel- 
rose responded  with  its  proportion  of  men,  and  sent  a 
few  into  four  of  the  five  regiments  then  raised,  viz :  The 
Fifth,  Sixth,  Eighth  and  Sixtieth ;  and  their  names  are  as 
follows : 

FIFTH     REGIMENT.i 
Co.  K. 

PRIVATE. 

GROVER,    W.    W. 

Mustered  out  with  the  regiment,  Nov.  16,  1864. 

SIXTH     REGIMENT.2 
Co.  A. 

LIEUTENANT. 

CHIPMAN,    GEORGE    A.3 
Mustered  out  with  the  regiment,  Oct.  27,  1864 

PRIVATES,     • 

BURNHAM,    OLIVER    R. 
Mustered  out  Oct.  27,  1864. 


'  The  Fifth  Regiment  was  mustered  into  the  service  July  28,  1864,  and 
was  stationed  at  Fort  Marshall,  near  Baltimore,  Md. 

*  The  Sixth  Regiment  was  mustered  into  the  service  July  20,  1864,  and 
was  stationed  at  Arlington  Heights,  Va.,  and  at  Fort  Delaware,  Md.,  a  depot 
for  Confederate  prisoners. 

■''  Also  served  nine  months  in  Forty- Fifth  Regiment  in  1862-3  ;  see  chap.  V. 


EIGHTH    REGIMENT.  9^ 

Mclaughlin,  hiram. 

Mustered  out  Oct.  27,  1864. 

WAITT,    JOHN    R. 
Mustered  out  Oct.  27,  1864. 

WYMAN,    GEORGE    W. 
Mustered  out  Oct.  27,  1864. 

WYMAN,    WESTON. 
Mustered  out  Oct.  27,  1864. 

Co.  E. 

PRIVATES. 

PAGE,    MOSES    S.i 
Mustered  out  Oct.  27,  1864. 

SPAULDING,   HENRY    H. 
Mustered  out  Oct.  27,  1864. 

EIGHTH    REGIMENT.2 

SERGEANT-MAJOR. 

TYLER,    WILLIAM    N? 
Sergeant  of  Co.  E  at  first ;  promoted  Sergeant-Major  July 

^  Acted  as  Postmaster  of  the  regiment  while  at  Arlington  Heights,  and 
Assistant  Postmaster  and  Inspector  of  Rebel  correspondence  at  Fort  Dela- 
ware. 

'  The  Eighth  Regiment,  —  like  the  Fifth  and  Sixth,  as  stated  on  previous 
pages,  —  was  one  of  the  three  months'  regiments  that  responded  so  quickly 
when  the  first  call  for  troops  was  made  in  April,  1861,  and  marched  to 
Washington  by  the  way  of  Annapolis,  Md.,  overcoming  many  obstacles.* 
The  Eighth  was  now  mustered  into  service  July  26,  1 864,  and  was  stationed 
at  Baltimore  and  Cockeysville,  Md. 

"*  Also  served  three  months  in  the  Fifth  Regiment  in  1861,  and  nine 
months  in  the  Fiftieth  Regiment,  in  1862-3,  but  on  the  South  Reading  quota. 


*  The  National  latelligencer  said  of  it,  the  day  after  its  arrival  in  Washington,  "  We 
doubt  whether  anj  other  single  regiment  in  the  country  could  furnish  such  a  ready  contin- 
gent to  reconstruct  a  steam  engine,  lay  a  rail-track,  and  bend  the  sails  of  a  man-of-war." 


96  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

19,    1864;    mustered  out  with  the  regiment,  Nov.   10, 
1864. 

Co.  E. 

CORPORAL. 

SHELTON,  ^THOMAS.i 
Mustered  out  Nov.  10,  1864. 

PRIVATES. 

ANDERSON,    JOHN    H.    L. 
Mustered  out  Nov.  10,  1864. 

LYALL,    DAVID  S. 
Mustered  out  Nov.  10,  1864. 

QUINN,    PATRICK. 
Mustered  out  Nov.  10,  1864. 

PRATT,    HENRY    W. 
Mustered  out  Nov.  10,  1864. 

SIMONDS,    JOSEPH    W.2 
Mustered  out  Nov.  10,  1864. 

VINTON,  EDWIN    A.3 
Mustered  out  Nov.  10,  1864. 

VINTON,    GRAY. 
Mustered  out  Nov.  10,  1864. 


'  Also  served  nine  months  in  Fiftieth  Regiment,  in  1862-3,  see  chap.  V. 

*  Also  served  nine  months  in  Forty-Fourth  Regiment,  in  1862-3,  see 
chap.  V. 

3  Also  served  nine  months  in  Forty-Second  Regiment,  in  1862-3,  see 
chap.  V. 


NINETY    DAYS     MEN.  (^J 

SIXTIETH     REGIMENT.i 
Co.  G. 

PRIVATES. 

PILLING,  JAMES  L. 
Mustered  out  Nov.  30,  1864. 

UPHAM,  HENRY  W. 
Mustered  out  Nov.  30,  1864. 

Ninety  Days'  Men. 

Massachusetts  also  sent  into  the  field  this  same  year,  — 
1 864,  —  thirteen  unattached  companies  of  infantry,  com- 
prising twelve  hundred  and  forty-seven  (1,247)  nien,  to 
serve  for  a  period  of  ninety  days  ;  and  in  the  Seventh 
Unattached  Company,^  Captain  Albert  E.  Proctor,  Mel- 
rose had  seven  (7)  men,  as  follows  : 

lieutenant. 
NICHOLS,    GEORGE    G. 
Commissioned   1st  Lieutenant   May  6,    1864;    mustered 
out  with  the  regiment,  Aug.  4,  1864.^ 

corporal. 

LYNDE,    AMOS    W.4 
Mustered  out  Aug.  4,  1864. 


'  The  Sixtieth  Massachusetts  Regiment  was  mustered  in  Aug.  i,   1864, 
and  was  stationed  at  Indianapolis,  Ind. 

*  The  Seventh  Unattached  Company  was  mustered  into  service  May  4, 
1864,  and  was  stationed  at  Gallop's  Island,  Boston  Harbor. 

^  Also  served  nine  months  in  Forty-Second  Regiment,  but  on  Boston's 
quota.     Re-commissioned  in  Fourth  Heavy  Artillery,  see  chap.  VI. 

*  Also  served  nine  months  in  the  Forty-Second  Regiment,  in  1862-3,  see 
chap.  V. 


98  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

WAGONER. 

YORK,    JOSIAH    R.1 
Mustered  out  Aug.  4,  1864. 

PRIVATES. 

DAVIS,    JAMES    L.J 
Mustered  out  Aug.  4,  1 864. 

EMERSON,    JAMES    G.» 
Mustered  out  Aug.  4,  1864. 

EMERSON,    JOSEPH    S. 
Mustered  out  Aug.  4,  1864. 

YORK,    WILLIAM    B.' 
Mustered  out  Aug.  4,  1864. 

One  Year's  Men. 

Melrose  had  one  man  in  the  regiment, —  the  Sixty-First, 
—  which  was  also  organized  during  this  same  year, — 
1864,  —  to  serve  for  a  period  of  one  year.  It  was  mus- 
tered into  the  service  in  October,  and  took  part  in  the 
various  engagements  before  Petersburg. 

Co.  F. 
private. 
PEMBERTON,    LEWIS    E. 
Mustered  out  Aug.  3,  1865. 


'  Also  served  nine  months  in  the  Forty-Second  Regiment,  in  1862-3,  see 
chap.  V. 


IX. 

i86i-5- 

Navy. 

And  is  the  old  flag  flying  still, 

That  o'er  your  fathers  flew, 
With  bands  of  white  and  rosy  light. 

And  field  of  starry  blue  ? 
Ay !  look  aloft !  its  folds  full  oft 

Have  braved  the  roaring  blast, 
And  still  shall  fly  when  from  the  sky 

This  black  typhoon  has  past ! 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 


Melrose  was  well  represented  in  the  naval  service  dur- 
ing the  great  Rebellion.  From  the  breaking  out  of  the  war 
until  April  13,  1865,  Massachusetts  furnished  for  the  naval 
and  marine  service  twenty-six  thousand  three  hundred  and 
ten  (26,310)  men.  July  4,  1864,  Congress  passed  an  act 
allowing  all  men  in  the  naval  service  to  be  credited  on 
their  proper  quotas.  Those  whose  place  of  residence 
could  be  ascertained  were  assigned  to  their  several  cities 
and  towns.  It  was  found  that  there  were  seven  thousand 
six  hundred  and  five  (7,605)  men  whose  places  of  resi- 
dence could  not  be  ascertained  ;  and  these,  in  September, 
1864,  were  credited /w  rata  to  the  different  towns  and 
cities  of  the  Commonwealth.  The  number  apportioned 
to  Melrose  was  twenty-eight  (28),  and  their  names  are  as 


100  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

follows.  The  name  of  the  vessels  on  which  a  portion  of 
them  served,  or  their  location,  is  given  in  the  alphabetical 
list  at  the  end  of  the  volume. 

Bosson,  Samuel,  Ward,  Reuben  D., 

Kingdom,  John,  Waters,  Henry, 

Kohler,  Charles,  Watts,  Simon  C, 

Ludirzen,  George  S.,    '  Weeks,  Seymour, 

Lombard,  Charles  E.,  Weldon,  George  E., 

Lee,  George  E.,  Wharton,  Joseph, 

Lamb,  John  R.,  Wilbur,  William  H., 

Lange,  Andrew,  Wilkins,  Charles  B., 

Lafferty,  James,  Wilkinson,  Robert, 

Launzen,  Christian,  Williams,  Charles  J., 

Lane,  John,  Williams,  George, 

Lalley,  Thomas  J.,  Williams,  Walter, 

Lewis,  Thomas,  Wilson,  Thomas  E., 

Lemont,  Henry,  Woodman,  Robert. 

Those  of  our  own  citizens  that  served  in  the  navy,  at 
different  times  and  for  different  periods,  are  as  follows  : 

BODWELL,    DANIEL    A.i 
Enlisted  in  Marine  Corps,  U.  S.  Navy,  Aug,  24,  1863  ; 
served  on  gunboats  "  Augusta  "  and  "  Chicopee  "  ;  was 
in  Farragut's  victory  in  Mobile  Bay,  Aug.   5,    1864; 
discharged  Aug.  24,  1867, 

DYER,    N.    MAYO.2 
Appointed  Acting  Master's  Mate,  May   2,    1862,  and 
ordered  to  the  Charlestown  Navy  Yard  for  instruction  in 

'  Served  a  year  in  the    Twenty-Second   Massachusetts    Regiment,   see 
chap.  IIL 
*  Served  a  year  in  the  Thirteenth  Massachusetts  Regiment,  see  chap.  IL 


N.    MAYO    dyer's    SERVICE.  lOl 

gunnery,  etc.  July  7,  ordered  to  the  U.  S.  S.  "  R.  R. 
Cuyler,"  Lieutenant  Commanding  Francis  Winslow,  and 
on  the  29th  July  sailed  for  the  East  Gulf  Squadron,  touch- 
ing at  Nassau,  where  the  Confederate  steamer  "  Florida  " 
—  then  called  the  "  Oreto  "  —  was  lying,  and  under  Eng- 
lish colors.  Cruised  off  that  port  for  several  days,  until 
compelled  to  visit  Key  West  for  coal,  and  repairs  to 
machinery.  Sailed  from  Key  West  Aug.  21,  for  Nassau. 
"  Oreto  "  had  left  that  port,  and  on  the  4th  of  September 
she  entered  Mobile  Bay.  Yellow  fever  broke  out  on 
board,  and  the  surgeon,  executive  and  commanding  offi- 
cers being  sick,  Aug.  26th  the  "  Cuyler  "  started  for  New 
York.  Aug.  27th,  Dyer  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  prize 
schooner  "  Anna  Sophia,"  captured  that  day,  and  ordered 
to  New  York,  where  he  arrived  Sept.  ist.  Rejoined  the 
"  R.  R.  Cuyler"  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  Sept.  10,  Captain 
Winslow  and  Lieutenant  Phillips  having  died  during  his 
absence. 

Oct.  7,  the  "  Cuyler  "  sailed  from  Portsmouth,  —  Lieu- 
tenant Commander  Homer  C.  Blake  in  command,  —  for 
the  West  Gulf  Squadron,  via  Key  West,  arriving  at  Pen- 
sacola,  Fla.,  Oct.  20,  joining  the  blockading  fleet  off 
Mobile  the  27th.  On  the  escape  of  the  "  Oreto "  from 
Mobile  in  January,  1863,  the  "Cuyler"  started  in  chase, 
and  cruised  about  the  West  Indies  for  two  months  in 
search  of  her,  returning  off  Mobile  the  middle  of  March. 

On  the  night  of  May  17,  in  charge  of  a  boat's  crew, 
Dyer  boarded  and  captured  the  rebel  schooner  "  Isabel " 
ashore  under  Fort  Morgan,  setting  fire  to  her  and  bring- 
ing off  her  crew  and  papers.^  May  20,  1863,  he  was  pro- 
moted, by  Admiral  Farragut,  to  Acting  Ensign,  subject 

'  For  Lieutenant  Dyer's  own  account  of  this  daring  exploit,  see  chap.  XVI. 


102  THE    MELROSE     MEMORIAL. 

to  the  approval  of  the  Navy  Department.  May  30, 
ordered  to  the  command  of  the  steamer  "  Eugenie,"  and 
remained  on  blockade  duty,  with  occasional  trips  to  New 
Orleans,  until  the  latter  part  of  November  ;  Sept.  12,  cap- 
turing the  blockade  runner  "  Alabama,"  and  being  under 
fire  of  Forts  Morgan  and  Gaines  several  times,  —  receiv- 
ing a  shell  from  Fort  Morgan  through  the  pilot  house  on 
one  occasion,  slightly  wounding  him  in  the  hand. 

During  the  winter  of  1863-4  he  was  on  duty  in  the 
Mississippi  River,  excepting  one  expedition  to  the  Mer- 
mantau  River,  —  coast  of  Louisiana,  —  resulting  in  the 
capture  of  a  schooner  and  sloop,  and  their  destruction, 
bringing  off  nine  prisoners  and  valuable  papers  ;  for  which 
he  was  promoted,  in  July,  to  Acting  Master  by  the  Navy 
'Department,  to  date  from  Jan.  1 2,  1 864.  His  health  being 
poor  at  this  time,  he  obtained  permission  to  return  North 
for  two  months  ;  but  on  arriving  at  New  Orleans,  and 
learning  that  the  attack  on  the  defences  of  Mobile  Bay 
would  probably  take  place  before  the  expiration  of  his  fur- 
lough, he  returned  off  Mobile  and  applied  for  orders  to 
some  vessel  assigned  for  the  attack. 

July  19,  he  was  ordered  to  the  steamer  "  Metacomet," 
Lieutenant  Commander  James  E.  Jouett,  which  vessel  on 
the  5  th  of  August  was  the  consort  of  the  flag-ship  "  Hart- 
ford," —  Rear  Admiral  Farragut,  —  leading  the  line  past 
the  rebel  works  into  Mobile  Bay,  and  to  the  attack  of  the 
rebel  fleet  inside.  The  rebel  steamer  "  Selma  "  struck  to 
the  "  Metacomet,"  and  Dyer  was  placed  in  charge  pro 
tempore}  August  26,  the  rebel  defences  of  the  bay  hav- 
ing all  surrendered,  he  accepted  leave  and  returned  North. 
Rejoined  the  squadron  Oct,  29,  when  he  was  ordered  to 

'  For  Lieutenant  Dyer's  account  of  this  fight,  see  chap.  XVI. 


N.    MAYO    dyer's    SERVICE.  IO3 

the  flag-ship  "  Hartford."  Nov.  30,  he  was  ordered  to  the 
command  of  U.  S.  S.  "  Rodolph,"  and  to  duty  in  Missis- 
sippi Sound,  co-operating  with  the  land  forces  under 
General  Granger.  The  "  Rodolph  "  was  destroyed  by  a 
torpedo  in  Blakely  River,  in  the  approach  upon  Mobile, 
April  I,  1865,^  from  which  time  until  May  10  he  was 
engaged  upon  special  duty  connected  with  the  clearing  of 
torpedoes  from  Mobile  Bay  and  Channel. 

April  22,  1865,  he  was  promoted  Acting  Volunteer 
Lieutenant.  May  10,  upon  the  surrender  of  the  rebel 
fleet  to  the  forces  under  Rear  Admiral  Thacher,  he  was 
given  command  of  the  late  rebel  steamer  "  Morgan."  In 
June,  detached  and  placed  in  command  of  the  "  Elk,"  and 
July  12,  placed  in  command  of  the  U.  S.  S.  "Stockdale," 
and  ordered  to  Mississippi  Sound.  The  "  Stockdale " 
being  sold,  Sept.  4,  he  was  ordered  to  the  U.  S.  S. 
"  Moharka "  as  Executive  Officer.  Oct.  8,  detached  and 
placed  in  command  of  the  U.  S.  S.  "  Glasgow,"  temporary 
flag-ship  of  Rear  Admiral  Thacher. 

In  April,  1866,  received  permission  to  return  North, 
and  May  19,  was  ordered  to  special  duty  in  the  Bureau  of 
Navigation,  Navy  Department,  Washington,  D.  C. 

*  "On  this  day,  April  i,  1865,  another  vessel  was  sunk  by  a  torpedo.  At 
I,  P.  M.,  the  tin-clad  steamer  '  Rodolph,'  Acting  Master  N.  M.  Dyer,  in 
obedience  to  signal  from  flagship,  weighed  anchor,  passed  within  hail,  and, 
receiving  orders  to  take  a  barge  alongside  containing  apparatus  for  raising 
the  '  Milwaukie,'  proceeded  with  it  inside  the  Blakely  bar.  The  *  Rodolph  ' 
crossed  the  bar,  and  was  standing  up  toward  the  wreck  of  the  '  Milwaukie,' 
when,  at  2.40,  P.  M.,  being  directly  between  the  '  Chickasaw '  and  '  Winne- 
bago,' she  exploded  a  torpedo  under  her  starboard  bow,  and  rapidly  sank  in 
twelve  feet  of  water.  It  appeared  that  a  hole  had  been  made  in  her  ten  feet 
in  diameter.  By  this  casualty  four  of  her  crew  were  killed  and  seven 
wounded,  of  whom  five  were  colored  men  "  —  History  of  the  Campaign  of 
Mobile,  by  Brevet  Major- General  C.  C.  Andrews. 


104  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

March  12,  1868,  he  was  commissioned  a  Lieutenant  in 
the  regular  service,  and  is  now  on  duty  in  the  Pacific 
Squadron. 

EARL,    WILLIAM    H.i 

Transferred  from  the  Thirty-Ninth  M.assachusetts  Regi- 
ment, April  21,  1864;  served  on  gunboat  "Mendota"  ; 
discharged  June  12,  1865. 

FULLER,    WILLIAM    A. 

Appointed  Acting  Third  Assistant  Engineer,  March  23, 
1864;  assigned  to  gunboat  "Fort  Donelson";  dis- 
charged Dec.  18,  1865. 

HAMMOND,    GEORGE. 

Transferred  from  the  Third  Heavy  Artillery,  June  29, 
1864  ;  served  on  gunboat  "Juniata"  ;  was  in  the  attacks 
on  "Fort  Fisher,"  Dec,  24-25,  1864,  and  Jan.  13,  14, 
15,  1865  ;  afterwards  in  North  and  South  Atlantic  Block- 
ading Squadrons;  discharged  1865. 

HARVEY,    FRANKLIN. 

Enlisted  Dec.  19,  1861  ;  served  two  years  on  gunboat 
"  Miami  "  ;  was  in  the  attack  on  Forts  "  St.  Philip  "  and 
"  Jackson,"  April  15-23,  1862,  under  Admiral  Farragut ; 
discharged  Dec,  21,  1863. 

MACEY,    JOHN    S.2 

Enlisted  Nov,  15,  1863;  served  one  year  on  gunboat 
"Phillippi"  ;  discharged  Dec.  i,  1864. 


*  Served  on  U.  S.  frigate  "Sabine"  six  months,  in  1861-2, 

*  Served  previously  in  the  Seventeenth  Regiment  Massachusetts  Volun- 
teers, see  chap.  III. 


Ol'R    MEN    IN    THE    NAVY.  IO5 

MARTIN,    JEREMIAH,  JR. 

Appointed  Paymaster's  Clerk,  on  U.  S.  S.  "Tritonia," 
Dec.  19,  1864  ;  transferred  to  U.  S.  ship  "J.  C.  Kuhn," 
July  3,  1865  ;  discharged  Sept.  14,  1865. 

McLaughlin,  frank  m. 

Enhsted  March  27,  1865  ;  served  three  years  and  a  half 
on  gunboats  "  Kearsarge,"  "  Mohican,"  and  "  Mohongo," 
as  Ship's  Yeoman  ;  discharged  Aug.  29,  1 868. 

MITCHELL,    GEORGE. 

Enlisted  Feb.  15,  1862;  served  three  years  on  gunboats 
"  Tioga,"  "  Sonoma,"  and  "  Britannia  "  ;  was  in  attack 
on  "Fort  Fisher,"  Dec.  24-25,  1864;  discharged  Feb. 
15,  1865. 

NICHOLS,    SMITH    W.,    JR.i 

At  the  opening  of  the  Rebellion,  assigned  as  Midshipman 
to  the  U.  S.  frigate  "  Wabash "  ;  at  home  on  leave  of 
absence,  on  account  of  sickness,  two  or  three  months 
during  the  summer  of  1861  ;  after  which  appointed 
Assistant  Instructor  on  the  U.  S.  Receiving  Ship 
"Ohio"  ;  Aug.  i,  1862,  appointed  Lieutenant  by  Presi- 
dent Lincoln;  commissioned  Feb.  21,  1863;  appointed 
Executive  Officer  of  U.  S.  Sloop  "  Macedonian "  in 
latter  part  of  1862;  transferred  to  Schoolship  "Sa- 
vannah," at  New  York,  in  spring  of  1863,  where  he 
remained  until  ordered  to  the  U.  S.  Steam-sloop  "  Shen- 


•  Appointed  Acting  Midshipman  in  the  United  States  navy,  .Sept.  27,  1858, 
on  the  recommendation  of  Hon.  D.  \V.  Gooch.  Entered  the  Naval  Acade- 
my at  Annapolis,  Md.  In  the  monthly  report  for  December,  i86o,  he  is 
spoken  of  by  the  Superintendent,  G.  S.  Blake,  as  a  "  correct  and  promising 
young  gentleman." 
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106  THE     MELROSE    MEMORIAL, 

andoah  "  ;  was  Executive  Officer  of  the  "  Shenandoah  " 
during  the  attacks  on  "Fort  Fisher,"  Dec.  24-25,  1864, 
and  Jan.    13,   14,   15,    1865.^     After  the  fall  of  "Fort 


'  Captain  Daniel  B.  Ridgely,  commanding  the  "  Shenandoah "  during 
these  attacks,  on  "  Fort  Fisher,"  thus  mentions  Lieutenant  Nichols  in  his 
reports.  Under  date  "Off  Beaufort,  N.  C,  December  31,  1864,"  referring 
to  the  first  attack,  he  says  : 

"  It  affords  me  much  gratification  to  speak  of  the  cool  bearing  of  Lieutenant  S.  W.  Nich- 
ols, the  Executive  Officer,  and  other  officers,  and  the  crew  of  this  ship,  during  the  two  days' 
bombardment." 

After  the  second  attack,  under  date  "Off  Fort  Fisher,  January  17,  1865," 
in  his  detailed  report  he  says  : 

*  *  *  "  At  9.48,  A.  M.,  sent  the  first  and  second  launches  and  first  cutter  with  the  storming 
party,  consisting  of  fifty-four  men  and  fourteen  marines,  under  command  of  Lieutenant  S.  W. 
Nichols,  the  Executive  Officer,  Ensign  Sands,  and  Boatswain  J.  H.  PoUey.  *  *  *  I  enclose 
Lieutenant  Nichols'  report  of  the  storming  party  from  this  ship,  which  will  speak  for  itself.  I 
take  great  pleasur*  in  bearing  testimony  to  the  cool  bearing  of  Lieutenant  Nichols,  the  Exec- 
utive Officer,  and  the  other  officers  and  crew  of  this  ship  during  the  bombardment. 
I  am,  very  respectfully. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

Daniel  B.  Ridgely,  Captain." 
Rkar-Admiral  David  D.  Porter, 
Commanding  North  Atlantic  Squadron. 

The  following  is  the  report  of  Lieutenant  Nichols  referred  to  by  Captain 

Ridgely : 

United  States  Steamer  Shenandoah,  ) 
Off  Nhw  Lvlet,  N.  C,  Jan.  17,  1865.  ) 
Sir  : —  I  have  the  honor  to  report,  that  on  leaving  this  ship  on  the  morning  of  the  isth 
instant,  in  charge  of  assaulting  party  of  this  ship,  consisting  of  fifty-four  men  and  a  sergeant's 
guard  of  marines,  with  Ensign  J.  H.  Sands  and  Boatswain  J  H.  Policy,  I  passed  within 
hail  of  the  "  Malvern,"  and  was  there  ordered  to  Lieutenant  Commander  Breese,  on  shore. 
Arrived  on  shore,  leaving  two  men  as  boat-keepers  in  each  of  the  three  boats,  reported  to 
Lieutenant  Commander  Breese,  and  was  by  him  placed  in  the  third  division,  under  command 
of  Lieutenant  Commander  Selfridge.  The  marines  were  ordered  elsewhere.  On  the  charge 
our  men  were  orderly ;  kept  together ;  did  not  drop,  except  when  ordered  to  do  so,  and 
when  the  stockade  in  front  of  the  fort  was  reached,  were  among  the  foremost,  and  were 
among  the  last  to  fall  back  Robert  Esler,  second-class  fireman,  remained  with  me  and 
other  officers  and  men  behind  the  stockade  until  dark,  when  we  all  succeeded  in  getting 
away. 

I  found  that  marines,  Charles  Smith,  Adolph  Burton,  Wilmer  D.  Lyne,  James  Whyte, 
Thomas  S.  Brown,  all  of  this  ship,  had  remained  near  Fort  Fisher  until  dark,  not  having 
fallen  back  with  their  own  line.  On  arriving  down  the  beach,  I  found  that  Ensign  Sands 
and  Boatswain  PoUey  had  rallied  all  the  men  of  this  ship  duriu?  the  retreat,  had  found  all 


OUR    MEN    IN    THE    NAVY.  lO 


Fisher,"  ordered  in  the  iron-clad  "  Passaic  "  to  Philadel- 
phia ;  at  close  of  war  ordered  home,  waiting  orders. 
The  latter  part  of  1865,  again  ordered  to  the  U.  S. 
Steamer  "  Shenandoah,"  one  of  the  fleet  belonging  to 
the  Asiatic  Squadron,  commanded  by  Rear  Admiral  H. 
H.  Bell,  where  he  now  is.  Promoted  Lieutenant  Com- 
mander, July  25,  1866. 

PERKINS,   JAMES    F. 

Appointed  Acting  Ensign  Nov.  14,  1862  ;  assigned  to  U. 
S.  S.  "  Tritonia,"  "  Barrataria,"  "  Horace  Beals,"  and 
"  Portsmouth  "  ;  was  in  Farragut's  victory  at  Forts  "  St, 
Philip "  and  "  Jackson,"  and  "  Siege  of  Vicksburg "  ; 
discharged  Sept.  20,  1865.1 

'  For  form  of  discharge  papers,  see  Appendix  I. 


the  wounded  of  our  own  men,  seven  in  number,  and  had  sent  them  on  board  and  rendered 
good  service  to  other  wounded  men  of  the  assaulting  party.  Our  men  here  maintained  the 
sailor  discipline,  obeying  their  officers  cheerfully,  ready  and  willing  to  do  whatever  was 
required  of  them.  None  left  the  shore  except  those  ordered  to  take  off  the  wounded.  En- 
sign Sands  and  Boatswain  PoUey  deserve  the  highest  praise  for  the  zeal  and  energy  shown 
throughout.  At  night  the  sailors  and  marines  relieved  the  garrison  at  army  headquarters. 
On  being  relieved  in  the  morning,  was  ordered  up  the  beach  to  bury  the  dead.  Arriving 
there  and  finding  the  burial  party  of  sufficient  force,  returned  to  the  boats,  thence  to  the  ship. 
I  am  happy  to  state  that  none  of  our  men  were  killed,  and  that  the  color-bearers,  two  in 
number,  returned  each  with  his  flag. 

In  conclusion,  sir,  I  would  beg  leave  to  state  that  all  of  our  men  behaved  in  such  a  gallant 
manner  that  I  would  consider  it  invidious  to  make  any  distinction.  Each  and  all  deserve  the 
highest  commendation  for  their  coolness  and  courage  under  the  most  trying  circumstances, 
and  fully  sustained  the  hard-earned  reputation  of  the  American  sailor. 

I  am,  sir,  very  respectfully. 

Your  obedient  servant. 

Smith  W.  Nichols,  Jr. 

Lieutenant  U.  S,  Navy- 
Captain  D.  B.  Ridgely, 

Commanding  "  Shenandoah." 

Forwarded. 

Daniel  B.  Ridgely, 

Captain  U.  S,  N. 
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108  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

SMALL,    EDWARD    A. 

Appointed  Acting  Ensign  June  i6,  1862;  ordered  to 
U.  S.  S.  "  Cambridge "  in  North  Atlantic  Squadron  ; 
detached  Oct.  1 7,  1 864,  and  ordered  to  Frigate  "  Wa- 
bash "  ;  was  in  the  attacks  on  "  Fort  Fisher,"  Dec. 
24,  25,  1864,  and  Jan.  13-15,  1865  ;  promoted  Acting 
Master  Feb.  22,  1865  ;  ordered  on  special  duty  until 
May  15,  1865,  and  then  to  the  ship  "New  Hampshire," 
in  the  South  Atlantic  Squadron.;  discharged  Oct.  14, 
1865. 


The  good  ship  Union's  voyage  is  o'er, 

At  anchor  safe  she  swings, 
And  loud  and  clear,  with  cheer  on  cheer 

Her  joyous  welcome  rings  : 
Hurrah  !     Hurrah !  it  shakes  the  wave. 

It  thunders  on  the  shore,  — 
One  flag,  one  land,  one  heart,  one  hand, 

One  Nation,  evermore  !  " 


X. 

i863. 

The  Draft. 

Strike  for  tliat  broad  and  goodly  land, 

Blow  after  blow,  till  men  shall  see 
That  Might  and  Right  move  hand  in  hand. 

And  glorious  must  their  triumph  be. 

William  Cullen  Bryant, 


The  Act  of  Congress  for  "  enrolling  and  calling  out  the 
national  forces,  and  for  other  purposes,"  was  approved 
March  3,  1863.  The  main  objects  of  this  law  wei^  to 
enroll  and  hold  liable  to  military  duty  all  citizens  capable 
of  bearing  arms  not  exempted  therefrom  by  its  provisions, 
to  call  forth  the  national  forces  when  required,  and  to 
arrest  deserters  and  return  them  to  their  proper  com- 
mands. 

The  original  act  required  the  enrollment  to  be  com- 
posed of  two  classes  :  the  first  comprising  all  persons 
subject  to  do  military  duty  between  the  ages  of  twenty 
and  thirty-five  years,  and  all  unmarried  persons  subject  to 
military  duty  above  the  age  of  thirty-five  and  under  the 
age  of  forty-five  ;  the  second,  comprising  all  other  persons 
subject  to  military  duty,  that  is,  all  married  persons  be- 
tween thirty-five  and  forty-five  years  of  age,  who  fulfilled 
the  required  conditions.  The  law  provided  that  the  sec- 
ond class  should  not  be  called  out  in  any  district  until  the 


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first  class  was  exhausted.  This  distinction  of  classes  was 
abolished  Feb.  24,  1864,  and  all  persons  liable  to  military 
duty  consolidated  into  one  and  the  same  class. 

Under  this  law,  and  by  direction  of  Provost-Marshal 
General  James  B.  Fry,  four  drafts  were  made  throughout 
the  loyal  States  during  the  Rebellion.  The  first  com- 
menced about  the  ist  of  July,  1863,  and  was  for  one-fifth 
of  the  persons  enrolled  in  the  first  class.  The  second 
commenced  about  the  15  th  of  April,  1864,  and  was  for 
deficiencies  under  calls  for  seven  hundred  thousand  (700,- 
000)  volunteers.  The  third  commenced  about  the  19th  of 
September,  1864,  for  deficiencies  under  call  of  July  18, 
1864,  for  five  hundred  thousand  (500,000)  volunteers.  The 
fourth  commenced  about  the  20th  of  February,  1865,  for 
deficiencies  under  call  of  Dec.  19,  1864,  for  three  hundred 
thousand  (300,000)  volunteers. 

The  whole  number  of  persons  drawn,  in  the  United 
States,  during  the  first  draft,  was     .         .  292,441 

Failed  to  report       .         .         .         .         .     39,415 
Discharged  for  various  causes  .        .         460 


39.875 

252,566 
Whole  number  exempted  .        .  164,395 


Held  to  personal  service  ...  9,881 
Furnished  substitutes  ....  26,002 
Paid  commutation 52,288 


5,171 


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z,oou 

29,191 

22,559 

8o7 

6,832 

2,322 

3703 

6,832 

THE    FIRST    DRAFT.  Ill 

The  whole  number  of  persons  drawn  in  Massachusetts 
during  this  draft  was        ....  32,077 

Failed  to  report 2,880 

Discharged  for  various  causes  .         .  6 


Whole  number  exempted 

Held  to  personal  service 
Furnished  substitutes 
Paid  commutation    . 


The  whole  number  of  persons  drawn  in  this  District,  — 
the  Sixth,  —  during  this  draft  was   .         .         .  2,712 

Failed  to  report        ......  167 

Total  number  exempted   . 

Held  to  personal  service 

Furnished  substitutes      .... 

Paid  commutation    .         .         . 

— ^         397 

Captain  H.  G.  Herrick,  of  Saugus,  was  appointed  Pro- 
vost-Marshal for  this  District,  and  his  headquarters  were 
at  Lawrence  ;  and  on  the  days  of  drafting,  busy  and  inter- 
esting scenes  were  presented  at  his  office,  there  being  a 
great  desire  manifested  during  the  progress  of  the  draft, 
to  witness  the  operation,  and  to  ascertain  who  were  the 
unlucky  ones  whose  names  should  be  taken  from  the 
wheel  of, —  7iot  fortune,  but,  to  them,  of  wzlsfortune.  The 
drafting  in  this  District  commenced  July  9th,  and  Melrose, 


2,545 
2,148 

52 

397 

102 

243 

112  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL.     ' 

—  Sub-District  No.  9,  —  was  reached  July  13th.  Forty- 
nine  (49)  names  were  drawn  from  the  wheels  The  provi- 
sions of  the  act  were  such  that  any  person  drafted,  if  found 
acceptable,  could  be  exempted  from  service  by  furnishing 
a  substitute,  or  paying  three  hundred  dollars  (^300)  com- 
mutation. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  drafted  persons,  giving 
those  who  furnished  substitutes,  those  who  paid  commu- 
tation, those  who  failed  to  report,  and  those  who  were 
exempted  for  various  causes.  No  one  was  drafted  and 
accepted  from  our  town  who  served  in  person. 
Furnished  substitutes : 

Jonathan  C.  Howes, 

Henry  W.  Barrett, 

George  W.  Emerson. 
Paid  commutation :  2 

William  F.  Gordon, 

Joseph  A.  Fairbanks, 

Osgood  W.  Upham,^ 

Charles  Robbins. 

Exempted  because  only  son  of  a  widow,  liable  to  mili- 
tary duty : 

Nathaniel  J.  Bartlett, 
William  Donalavy.^ 


*  The  whole  number  in  enrolled  men  of  Melrose  liable  to  do  military 
duty,  as  returned  by  the  assessors  in  May  of  each  year  of  the  war,  was  as 
follows:  In  1861,366;   1862,440;   1863,368;   1864.359;   1865,365. 

*  The  amount  of  commutation  money  paid  at  this  time,  in  Massachusetts, 
was  $1,110,900  by  3,703  men;  and  d  iring  the  war,  $1,610,400  by  5,318 
m^n.  The  amount  paid  during  the  war,  throughout  the  loyal  States,  was 
$26,366,316.78,  paid  by  87.874  men. 

'  For  form  of  certificate  of  exemption,  see  Appendix  E. 

*  Afterwards  entered  the  marine  service  for  five  years,  but  not  on  the 
quota  of  Melrose. 


OUR    DRAFTED    MEN.  1 13 

Exempted  because  had  two  brothers  then  in  United 
States'  service  : 

Richard  H.  Shelton, 
Stephen  W.  Shelton. 

Exempted  because  over  thirty-five,  and  married  : 
William  H.  Stone. 

Exempted  because  not  naturalized  : 
James  Astle. 

Exempted  for  disability : 
Charles  E.  Keith, 
Joseph  Goodwin, 
Curtis  S.  Gordon, 
Daniel  L.  Chase, 
Frederick  W.  A.  Rankin,  Jr., 
William  Cook,  i 

Jonathan  Barrett, 
James  W.  Dodge, 
Elbridge  H.  Goss, 
Lucius  L.  D.  Porter, 
William  F.  Morse, 
Charles  A.  Waite, 
Moses  S.  Page, 
Lewis  H.  Richardson, 
Albert  F.  Shelton,^ 
Andrew  P.  Trott, 
Oren  Brown, 
Leander  T.  Freeman, 
Theodore  L.  Knowles, 
Walter  Babb, 

*  Was   discharged    Dec.   23,   1862,  from    the  Thirteenth    Regiment  on 
account  of  wound  received  at  "  Battle  of  Antietani,"  Sept.  17,  1862. 

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THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Charles  H.  Blaisdell, 
Edmund  W.  Davis/ 
John  H.  B.  Henderson, 
William  A.  Fuller, 
Oren  H.  Peck, 
William  Morse, 
Joseph  S.  Emerson, 
John  L,  Allen, 
John  Thompson,^ 
Joshua  Emery,  Jr., 
John  H.  Crocker,^ 
Bradford  Edmands. 

Failed  to  report : 

Augustus  L.  Cheever,"* 
George  W.  Grover,  Jr.,* 
Edward  Finnegan, 
George  Hammond.* 


Whole  number  drawn        .... 

49 

Furnished  substitutes   .         .        .         .         . 

3 

Paid  commutation 

4 

Failed  to  report 

4 

Exempted  for  disability         .... 

32 

Exempted  for  other  causes    .... 

6 

—  49 

'  Was  discharged  Oct.  20,  1862,  from  the  Twenty-Second  Regiment  on 
account  of  disability. 

*  Afterwards  entered  the  navy,  but  not  on  quota  of  Melrose. 

'  Was  discharged  Dec.  30,  1862,  from  the  Thirteenth  Regiment  on  account 
of  disabil'ty. 

■*  Enlisted  in  Third  Heavy  Artillery,  July  15,  1863,  two  days  after  the  draft. 

*  Enlisted  in  Third  Heavy  Artillery,  July  25,  1863,  twelve  days  after  the 
draft. 


OUR    DRAFT    CELEBRATION.  1  I5 

There  were  three  Shelton  families  in  our  town  at  the 
time  of  the  draft,  in  one  of  which  were  five  brothers  ; 
three  of  these  brothers  were  drafted,  one  of  whom  had 
been  in  the  service.  The  other  two  brothers  were  then  in 
the  service. 

The  Boston  Journal  of  July  14th,  —  the  next  day  after 
the  draft,  —  contained  the  following  item  : 

MELROSE. 
Celebrating  the  Draft. 

The  drafted  men  of  this  quiet  village  had  a  jolly  time  of  it 
last  evening.  A  party  of  them  arrayed  in  fantastic  uniforms, 
and  with  strange  weapons,  with  an  American  flag,  a  drum, 
horns,  tin  pans,  and  other  musical  instruments,  made  a  tour  of 
the  town,  calling  on  all  their  fortunate  compatriots,  and  some- 
what in  this  way  :  The  procession  halts  in  front  of  a  residence 
where  the  lights  are  low,  and  a  passer-by  would  know  that  some- 
body there  had  been  drafted.  The  commander  shouts  in  a 
stentorian  voice,  "  Conscript  So-and-SQ,  you're  wanted !  Ten 
days  is  played  out ;  five  minutes  is  the  word.  Conscript,  come 
forth ! " 

A  provost  guard  forthwith  wait  upon  the  honored  personage, 
and  he  is  placed,  with  cheers  and  congratulations,  in  the  pro- 
cession, which,  amid  the  clamor  of  unheard  of  music,  moves  on 
to  the  residence  of  the  next  fortunate  man.  There  was  no  es- 
caping this  conscription.  Every  man  had  to  take  his  place,  and 
everybody  seemed  to  enjoy  the  fun.  At  a  late  hour  the  melan- 
choly horns  were  moaning  in  the  suburbs  ;  and  there  was  a  gen- 
eral impression  with  the  citizens,  as  they  retired  to  rest,  that  it 
was  rather  a  jolly  thing,  than  otherwise,  to  be  drafted. 

1864. 
Calls  for  five  hundred   thousand   (500,000)   men  were 


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THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


made   Oct.   17,    1863,  and   Feb.    i,   1864,  and  our  quota 
assigned  by  Provost-Marshal  Herrick.^ 

The  second  draft  was  made,  under  the  call  of  March 
14th,  1864,  and  resulted  as  follows  : 

The  whole  number  of  persons  drawn  throughout  the 

United  States,  during  this  draft,  was        .  1 1 3,446 

Failed  to  report 27,193 

Discharged  for  various  causes          .         .  1,296 


28,489 

84,957 
Whole  number  exempted  .         .  39>952 


Held  to  personal  service  .  .  .  3,416 
Furnished  substitutes  .  .  .  .8,911 
Paid  commutation 32,678 


45>oo5 


45.005 


*  Provost-Marshal's  Office,  \ 
6th  District,  Mass.,  \ 

Lawrence,  Feb.  16,  1864.  ) 
Co/,  y.  H.  Clark,  Melrose,  Mass.  : 

Dear  Sir :  —  The  quota  of  Melrose,  exclusive  of  any  deductions,  under  the 
"  call  for  500,000  men,  and  to  make  up  deficiencies,"  is  50. 

From  this  is  to  be  deducted  the  number  of  men  enlisted  and  mustered,  not 
heretofore  credited,  and  also  4  men  drafted  and  commuted  for,  and  3  fur- 
nished substitutes. 

You  will  be  credited  for  all  men  who  shall  have  enlisted  from  your  town, 
and  who  shall  have  been  duly  mustered,  up  to  and  including  Feb.  29. 

Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

H.  G.  Herrick, 
Capt.  and  Pro. -Mar.  6tk  Dist.  Mass. 


THE    SECOND    DRAFT.  11 J 

The  whole  number  of  persons  drawn  in  Massachusetts 


during  this  draft  was        .         .         . 

Failed  to  report 

Discharged  for  various  causes 

2,287 
44 

9,505 
2.331 

105 

743 

1,615 

Whole  number  exempted 

7,174 
4,711 

Held  to  personal  service 

Furnished  substitutes      .... 

Paid  commutation             .... 

2,463 

The  whole  number  of  persons  drawn  in 
during  this  draft,  was       .... 
Whole  number  exempted 

Held  to  personal  service 
Furnished  substitutes      .         ,         . 
Paid  commutation    ..... 

this  District,! 
350 

273 

77 
.     2 

.   19 

.  56 

77 

The  draft  in  this  District  commenced  on  the  14th  of 
May,  and,  on  the  17th,  the  following  names  were  drawn 

•  Our  quota  was  as  follows  : 

Provost-Marshal's  Office, 
6th  Dist.  Mass., 
Lawrence,  March  25,  1864. 

Sir:  —  The  Quoia  of  your  Town,  under  the  President's  call  of  March  14, 
1864,  for  200,000  men,  will  be  as  follows  :  Sub-Dist.  No.  9,     .     .      19  men. 
By  order  of  Board  of  Enrollment,  6th  Dist.  Mass., 

S.  W,  HOPKINSON, 

Commissioner. 
Chairman  Selecfmen  of  Melrose. 


Il8  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

for  Melrose ;  but  as  there  was  no  deficiency  at  this  time, 
all  the  quotas  of  our  town  having  been  filled,  the  drafted 
persons  were  not  required  to  appear  for  examination,^ 

Four  of  the  citizens  that  were  drafted  in  1 863  were  also 
drafted  at  this  time. 

John  Thompson, 

William  Donalavy, 

Samuel  A.  Robinson, 

Joseph  Goodwin, 

Alonzo  Patterson, 

William  F.  Paul, 

William  A.  Fuller,^ 

George  W.  Farnsworth, 

William  Clark, 

Augustus  Ripley, 

Lyell  T.  Terwillager, 

Jarvis  P.  Hudson, 

James  Biffin, 

John  Perkins,  Jr., 

Fernando  C.  Taylor, 

Timothy  Upham, 

David  A.  Alden, 

John  H.  L.  Anderson, 

Gardner  Wheeler, 

'  '  Provost-Marshal's  Office, 

6th  District,  Mass., 

Lawrence,  May  31,  1864. 
Col.  y.  ff.  Clark,  Melrose,  Mass.  : 

The  deficiency  of  Melrose  is '  full,  as  appears  from  a  list  of  Supplemen- 
tary Credits  furnished  this  morning  by  Major  Clarke.  The  drafted  men 
need  not  appear.     You  are  authorized  to  so  notify  them. 

Very  respectfully, 

H.  G.  Herrick. 
Capf.  and  Pro.- Mar.,  6th  Dist.  Mats. 
•  Was  then  in  the  navy,  Acting  Third  Assistant  Engineer. 


THIRD  AND  FOURTH  DRAFTS.  IIC) 

Sylvanus  Magoon, 
Joseph  Holbrook, 
Edward  B.  Newhall, 
Thomas  Hawkins, 
Daniel  R.  Woodward. 
On  the  third  and  fourth  drafts,  there  were  no   names 
drawn  in  Massachusetts,  her  quotas  being  more  than  full. 
The  following  is  the  general  result  of  those  drafts  : 
Whole  number  of  persons  drawn  under  the  call  of  July 

1 8,  1864,  was 231,918 

Failed  to  report 66,159 

Discharged  for  various  causes  .         .     27,223 

93,382 


138,536 
Whole  number  of  exemptions  .         .  82,531 


56,005 
Held  to  personal  service  .         .         .     26,205 

Furnished  substitutes      ....     28,502 
Paid  commutation    .         .         .         .         .       1,298 

56,005 


Whole  number  of  persons  drawn  under  the  call  of  Dec. 

19,  1864,  was 139,024 

Failed  to  report 28,477 

Discharged  for  various  causes  .         .     64,419 

92,896 


46,128 
Whole  number  exempted  .        .  28,631 


Held  to  personal  service  .         .         .       6,845 

Furnished  substitutes      .         .         .         .10,192 
Paid  commutation  ....         460 


17,497 


17,497 


120  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

SUBSTITUTES 

FOR 

Enrolled  Men. 

During  the  year  1864,  an  arrangement  was  made,  by 
which  any  person  liable  to  do  military  duty  could,  in 
anticipation  of  the  draft  then  pending,  furnish  a  substi- 
tute. Four  of  our  citizens  availed  themselves  of  this 
privilege,  paying  for  their  substitutes  sums  ranging  from 
five  hundred  and  seventy-five  to  seven  hundred  dollars.^ 
In  this  manner  men  were  added  to  our  forces  in  the  field, 
and  our  quota  was  reduced  to  an  equal  extent. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  those  who  thus  fur- 
nished substitutes,  and  also  the  names  and  reputed  resi- 
dence of  their  respective  substitutes  : 

Enrolled  Men.  Substitutes.  Residence. 

George  Emerson,  2d,  Samuel  Wilson,  Nova  Scotia.^ 

George  W.  Heath,  William  Beamen,  " 

James  O.  Lynde,  John  H.  Reynard,  Canada. 

Daniel  W.  Wilcox,  Andrew  Tyrill,  Nova  Scotia. 


1  The  prices  demanded  for  substitutes  during  the  rebellion  differed  some- 
what from  those  paid  in  former  wars,  as  will  be  seen  by  the  following 
receipts,  —  the  original  of  which  are  now  in  possession  of  our  townsman, 
Mr.  Artemas  Barrett.  The  substitutes  in  each  case  were  for  citizens  of 
North  Maiden,  —  now  Melrose,  —  and  one  of  these  citizens  was  the  grand- 
father of  Mr.  Barrett. 

January  13,  1761. 

Received  of  Phinehas  Sprague  june'r.  eight  Pounds  lawful  money  it  being  for  my  going  a 
Solger  to  forte  Cumberland  and  I  had  a  promes  not  of  Six  Pounds  be  fore. 

Pr,  me  John  Batts. 

Cambridge,  August  17,  1781. 
Rec'd  of  Mr.  Joseph  Barrett  the  sum  of  Twelve  Pounds  Solid  Coine  in  full  of  all  accounts 
Debts  Dues  and  Demands  against  Mr.  Joseph  Lyonde  (Lynde)  or  Mr.  Joseph  Barretts.  Class 
for  Procuring  a  man  for  three  years  service  in  the  Army.      Reed  by  me       Bknj  Perkins. 

*  For  form  of  certificates  given  in  such  cases,  see  appendix  F. 


representative  recruits.  i2l 

Representative    Recruits. 

During  the  latter  part  of  the  year  1 864,  Massachusetts 
and  some  of  the  other  loyal  States  sent  recruiting  agents 
into  the  rebellious  States,  at  points  occupied  by  our  forces, 
for  the  purpose  of  enlisting  colored  volunteers,  under  the 
Act  of  Congress  approved  July  4th,  1864. 

An  arrangement  was  also  made  by  which  any  person 
not  liable  to  be  drafted  into  the  military  service  of  the 
United  States,  by  reason  of  age  or  disability,  could  de- 
posit with  the  Treasurer  of  the  State  in  which  such  per- 
son resided,  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  dol- 
lars (^125),  and  be  assigned  one  of  the  volunteers  thus 
enlisted,  such  volunteer  to  be  called  a  "  Representative 
Recruit."  The  recruits  thus  obtained,  and  not  assigned 
as  "  Representative  Recruits,"  were  apportioned  among 
the  various  towns  and  cities  of  the  Commonwealth  for 
which  the  enlistments  were  made. 

The  whole  number  of  volunteers  secured  by  these 
agents  was  two  thousand  four  hundred  and  eighteen 
(2,418)  ;  of  which  number  Massachusetts  enlisted  twelve 
hundred  and  fifty-seven  (1,257). 

The  whole  number  of  "  Representative  Recruits "  as- 
signed to  different  individuals  in  all  the  States  was  twelve 
hundred  ninety-two  (1,292),  of  which  number  Massachu- 
setts furnished  five  hundred  and  fifty-three  (553). 

Three  citizens  of  our  town  availed  themselves  of  this 
privilege  of  putting  into  the  service  a  "  Representative 
Recruit,"  receiving  from  the  State  a  certificate  signed  by 
the  Governor,  John  A.  Andrew,  and  the  Provost-Marshal 
of  the  State,  Joseph  M.  Day,  giving  the  names  of  the 
"sable  volunteers"  thus  assigned  them.^ 


'  For  form  of  receipt  and  certificate  given,  see  appendix  G. 
16 


122  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

The  names  of  these  three  gentlemen  were  : 
David  Fairbanks, 
Daniel  Russell, 
Dexter  Bryant. 

The  names  of  their  representatives  were,  respectively : 

Samuel  Harris,  enlisted  at  Natchez,  Mississippi,  in  the 
Seventy-First  United  States  Colored  Infantry ;  Davis 
Jones,  enlisted  at  Washington,  Louisiana,  in  the  Fifty- 
Eighth  United  States  Colored  Infantry  ;  William  Parsons 
enlisted  in  Tennessee,  in  the  Fiftieth  United  States  Col- 
ored Infantry. 

It  was  afterwards  ascertained  that  the  cost  of  these 
"  Representative  Recruits "  was  only  about  one  hundred 
dollars  (;^ioo);  and  by  permission  of  the  depositors,  the 
balance  of  the  sum  deposited,  twenty-five  dollars  (^25), 
.was  transferred  to  the  hands  of  Surgeon-General  Dale,  to 
be  appropriated  for  the  benefit  of  discharged  disabled  Mas- 
sachusetts soldiers,  or  their  families.  An  acknowledg- 
ment of  the  receipt  of  this  sum  was  given  by  the  Surgeon- 
General  to  each  depositor.  In  this  manner  the  sum  of  ten 
thousand  six  hundred  and  ninety  dollars  ($10,690)  was 
added  to  the  fund  for  the  relief  of  sick  and  disabled 
soldiers. 


XI. 

i86i-5. 


Our  native  land  !  to  thee, 

In  one  united  vow, 
To  keep  thee  strong  and  free, 

And  glorious  as  now  — 

We  pledge  each  heart  and  hand  ; 
By  the  blood  our  fathers  shed, 
By  the  ashes  of  our  dead. 
By  the  sacred  soil  we  tread  ! 

God  for  our  native  land  ! 

George    W.  Bethune. 


The  whole  number  of  men  furnished  by  the  State  of 
Massachusetts  during  the  war,  for  the  service  of  the 
United  States,  for  the  several  terms  of  service,  of  all  arms, 
and  including  both  army  and  navy,  was  one  hundred  and 
fifty-nine  thousand,  one  hundred  and  sixty-five  (159,165). 
The  following  table,  from  the  Report  of  the  Adjutant- 
General  for  the  year  1865,  gives  the  number  of  men  thus 
furnished  more  iri  detail : 

Organizations,  Terms,  etc  Number.    Aggregate. 

THREE   months'   SERVICE,  1 86 1. 

Four  (4)  Regiments,  Infantry, 

One  (i)  Battalion,  Riflemen, 

One  (i)  Battery,  Light  Artillery,  3>736 

THREE   years'    MEN    IN   THE   ARMY. 

Forty  (40)  Regiments,  Infantry, 
Five  (5)  Regiments,  Cavalry, 


124  "^^^    MELROSE    MEMO  IIAL. 

Three  (3)  Regiments,  Heavy  Artillery, 

One  (i)  Battalion,  Heavy  Artillery, 

Two  (2)  Companies,  Sharpshooters, 

Sixteen  (16)  Batteries,  Light  Artillery,  54j187 

Recruits,  including  drafted  men,  for  above 

organizations,  26,091* 

Men  for  Regular  Army,  Veteran  Reserve 

Corps,  and  other  organizations,  9)79° 

Re-enlistments  in  the  State  organizations,         6,202 


96,270 


ONE   year's   men    in   THE   ARMY. 

Two  (2)  Regiments,  Infantry, 

Two  (2)  Unattached  Companies,  Infantry, 

One  (i)  Regiment,  Heavy  Artillery, 

Eight  (8)  Un.  Companies,  Heavy  Artillery, 

Seven  (7)  Companies,  Cavalry,  4,728 

nine  months'  men. 
Seventeen  (17)  Regiments,  Infantry,  16,685 

ONE   hundred   days'    MEN. 

Five  (5)  Regiments,  Infantry, 

Nine  (9)  Un.  Companies,  Infantry,  5,461 

NINETY   days'    MEN. 

Thirteen  (13)  Un.  Companies,  Infantry,  *    '  1,209 

MEN    IN   THE   NAVY. 

Number  for  One  Year,  8,074 

Number  for  Two  Years,  3,204 

Number  for  Three  Years,  13,929 

Number,  term  not  given,  956 


26,163 


Number  enlisted  from  Dec.  j,  1864,  up  to 

and  including  August,  1865,  viz  : 

White  Volunteers,                                       .  2,741 

Colored  Volunteers,  1,308 

Regulars,  432 

Seamen,  154 

Marines,  12 

Veteran  Reserve  Corps,  266 

4,913 

Total,  159,165 


NUMBER    OF    MEN    FURNISHED.  1 25 

Of  the  enlisted  men,  of  whom  muster-out  rolls  have 
been  received  at  the  Adjutant-General's  office,  twelve 
thousand,  eight  hundred  and  twenty-six  (12,826)  were 
killed,  or  died  in  service.  Three  thousand  two  hundred 
and  seventy-eight  (3,278)  were  killed  on  the  battlefield, 
eighteen  hundred  and  twenty-two  (1,822)  died  of  wounds, 
fifty-five  hundred  and  ninety-four  (5,594)  died  of  disease, 
and  twenty-one  hundred  and  thirty-two  (2,132)  died  in 
rebel  prisons. 

The  whole  number  of  commissioned  officers  furnished 
by  Massachusetts  during  the  war  was  fifty-eight  hundred 
and  sixty-nine  (5,869),  four  hundred  and  thirty-two  (432) 
of  whom  laid  down  their  lives  for  their  country,  most  of 
them  on  the  field  of  battle.  Two  hundred  and  sixty  (260) 
were  killed,  one  hundred  and  four  (104)  died  of  wounds, 
seventy-five  (75)  died  of  disease,  and  three  (3)  died  in  rebel 
prisons.  The  above  figures  show  that  two  thousand  three 
hundred  and  forty  (2,340)  mor-e  men  died  of  disease  and 
in  rebel  prisons  than  were  killed  or  died  of  wounds. 

Of  the  thirty-five  (35)  general  officers  furnished  by 
Massachusetts,  nine  (9)  have  been  killed  or  fatally  wound- 
ed in  action,  and  sixteen  (16)  who  have  fallen  in  battle 
survive  their  wounds.     Only  ten  (10)  have  escaped  injury. 

The  whole  number  of  men  furnished  by  Melrose  for  the 
war,  for  the  several  terms  of  service,  of  all  arms,  including 
both  army  and  navy,  and  including  the  eight  (8)  citizens 
that  enlisted  on  other  quotas,  was  four  hundred  and  fifty- 
four  (454).  Of  these,  twenty-one  (21)  enlisted  men  lost 
their  lives  ;  five  (5)  were  killed  on  the  battle-field,  one  (i) 
was  accidentally  shot,  thirteen  (13)  died  of  disease  con- 
tracted in  the  service,  and  two  (2)  died  in  rebel  prisons. 

The  number  of  commissioned  officers  furnished  by 
Melrose  was  eighteen  (18) ;  two  (2)  of  whom  lost  their 


126  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

lives,  one  (i)  on  the  field  of  battle,  and  one  (i)  died  of  dis- 
ease contracted  in  the  service. 

The  whole  number  of  men  apportioned  to  Massachu- 
setts, under  the  several  calls  for  troops  during  the  war, 
was  one  hundred  and  seventeen  thousand,  six  hundred 
and  twenty-four  (i  17,624),  The  number  furnished,  reduc- 
ing all  the  different  times  of  service  to  the  standard  of 
three  years,  was  one  hundred  thirty-one  thousand,  one 
hundred  and  sixteen  (131,116)  men,  which  shows  a  sur- 
plus of  thirteen  thousand,  four  hundred  ninety-two  (13,- 
492.) 

All  of  the  three  hundred  and  thirty-five  cities  and  towns 
in  the  Commonwealth,  with  the  exception  of  twelve  small 
towns,  furnished  a  surplus  of  men  ;  and  it  is  a  source  of 
great  satisfaction  to  be  able  to  say,  that  when  the  rebel- 
lion closed,  Melrose,  one  of  the  youngest  towns  in  the 
State,^  had  a  surplus,  according  to  a  communication  from 


'  Melrose  was  incorporated  May  3d,  1850.  It  was  formerly  the  northern 
part  of  Maiden,  one  of  the  oldest  towns  in  the  State,  having  been  set  off  as 
a  town  in  1649.  Captain  Edward  Johnson,  of  Woburn,  in  his  "  Wonder- 
Working  Providence  of  Sions  Saviour  in  New  England,"  published  in  Lon- 
don in  1654,  —  and  recently  re-printed  in  very  fine  style,  with  a  learned 
historical  Introduction  and  an  Index,  by  our  townsman,  Mr.  William  F. 
Poole,  —  says  that  Maiden  was  settled  "  by  certain  persons,  who  issued  out 
of  Charles  Town,  and  indeed  had  her  whole  structure  within  the  bounds  of 
this  more  elder  Town,  being  severed  by  the  broad  spreading  river  of  Mistick 
the  one  from  the  other,  whose  troublesome  passage  caused  the  people  on  the 
North  side  of  the  river  to  plead  for  Town-priviledges  within  themselves, 
which  accordingly  was  granted  them ;  the  soyl  is  very  fertile,  but  they  are 
much  straitened  in  their  bounds,  yet  their  neerness  to  the  chief  Market 
Towns,  makes  it  the  more  comfortable  for  habitation ;  the  people  gathered 
into  a  Church  some  distance  of  time  before  they  could  attain  to  any  Church- 
Officer  to  administer  the  Seals  unto  them,  yet  in  the  mean  time  at  their  Sab- 
bath assemblies  they  had  a  godly  Christian  named  M.  Sarjant,  who  did 
preach  the  Word  unto  them,  and  afterwards  they  were  supplied  at  times  with 


SURPLUS    OF    MELROSE.  12'] 

the  District  Provost-Marshal,  H.  G.  Herrick,  of  seventy- 
four  (74)  men  '  over  and  above  all  the  different  quotas 


*  Provost-Marshal's  Office,  ^ 
6th  District,  Mass.,         > 
Lawrence,  December  31,  1864.) 
This  is  to  certify  that,  as  appears  by  the  records  of  this  office,  the  surplus 
of  the  Town  of  Melrose,  over  all  calls,  is  seventy-four  (74)  men. 

H.  G.  Herrick, 
Captain  and  Provost-Marshal,  6th  Dist.  Mass. 


some  young  Students  from  the  Colledg,*  .till  the  year  1650,  one  Mr.  Marma- 
duke  Mathews,  coming  out  of  Plimouth  Patten, t  was  for  some  space  of  time 
with  a  people  at  the  Town  of  Hull,  which  is  a  small   Port-town  peopled  by 
fishermen,   and   lies   at   the  entrance  of  the  Bays  mouth,  where  this  Mr. 
Mathews  continued  preaching,  till  he  lost  the   approbation  of  some   able 
understanding  men,  among  both  Magistrates  and  Ministers,  by  weak  and 
unsafe  expressions  in  his  teaching,  yet  notwithstanding  he  was  called  to  the 
office  of  a  Pastor  by  the  brethren  of  this   Church   of  Christ   at   Maiden, 
although  some  neighbor-churches  were  unsatisfied  therewith,  for  it  is  the 
manner  of  all  the  Churches  of  Christ  here  hitherto,  to  have  the  approbation 
of  their  Sister-Churches,  and  the  civil   Government  also  in  the  proceedings 
of  this  nature,  by  the  which  means  Communion  of  Churches  is  continued, 
peace  preserved  ;  and  the  truths  of  Christ  sincerely  acknowledged."     The 
brief  record  of  what  may  be  regarded  as  the  act  of  incorporation  by  the 
General  Court  is  as  follows  :  "  In  answer  to  the  petition  of  several  inhabi- 
tants of  Mistick  side,  their  request  is  granted,  viz.  to  be  a  distinct  town  of 
themselves,  and  the  name  thereof  to  be  Maulden."     The   two-hundredth 
anniversary  of  the  settlement  of  Maiden  was  celebrated  May  23,  1849.     An 
oration  was  delivered  by  Hon.  James  D.  Green,  and  a  poem  by  Rev.  Gilbert 
Haven,  Jr.     A  year  afterward  these  were  published,  together  with  other  his- 
torical matter  relating  to  the  town,  and  the  Committee  of  Publication  thus 
refer  to  Melrose,  which  was  set  off"  from  Maiden  the  same  year  :  "  The  new 
town  of  '  faip  Melrose,'  the  only  daughter  of  Maiden,  goes  forth  to  set  up  a 
separate  municipal  existence,  with  the  parental  consent  and  blessing ;  and 
will  doubtless  reflect  lasting  credit  on  her  parentage."     Its  population  at 
this  time  was  1,260;  and  in   i860  it  had  increased  to  2,527.     In  1865,  the 
year  the  war  closed,  our  population  was  2,865. 


•Harvard  College. 
fPlymouth  Colony. 


128 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


from  the  many  calls  for  troops,  by  the  President  of  the 
United  States. 

And,  notwithstanding  the  necessary  outlay  of  money  on 
account  of  this  gigantic  rebellion,  there  was  no  reduction 
in  the  amounts  of  money  voted  for  the  School,  Poor, 
Highway,  and  other  appropriations  ;  but,  on  the  contrary, 
a  steady  increase  throughout  the  continuance  of  the  war. 

As  has  been  stated,  Melrose  furnished  during  the  war 
four  hundred  and  fifty-four  (454)  men  for  the  different 
periods  of  service.  Three  hundred  and  seventy-seven  (377) 
different  names  appear  on  the  alphabetical  list ;  of  these, 
five  (5)  were  in  the  three  months'  service  in  1861,  all  but 
one  of  whom  re-enlisted.  Eleven  (i  i)  of  those  that  entered 
the  service  in  1861  and  1862  for  three  years  re-enlisted, 
and  counted  twice  in  filling  our  quotas.  Eight  (8)  re-en- 
tered the  service  after  recovering  from  the  wounds  or . 
sickness,  on  account  of  which  they  had  been  discharged  ; 
and  in  this  list  is  included  also  the  names  of  the  twenty- 
eight  (28)  men  in  the  navy,  credited  to  us  from  the  State  at 
large  ;  also  the  names  of  the  substitutes  put  into  the  ser- 
vice by  enrolled  citizens,  and  the  "  Representative  Re- 
cruits "  furnished  by  our  citizens  not  liable  to  draft. 

Quotas. 
The  following  is  a  statement  of  the  number  of  men 
called  for  at  different  times  during  the  rebellion  by  the 
President  of  the  United  States,  the  total  quotas  assigned, 
and  the  number  obtained  from  all  the  States,  Also  the 
quotas  of  Massachusetts,  with  the  number  of  men  fur- 
nished on  each,  compiled  from  the  Report  of  the  Provost- 
Marshal  General,  James  B.  Fry.  Also  the  quotas  of  Mel- 
rose and  the  number  of  men  furnished,  as  correctly  as  it  is 
possible  to  state  them. 


QUOTAS. 


129 


Date  of 
Proclamation. 


April  i5,  1861 .  . 
May  &  July,   1861* 
May  &  June,   1862 
July  2,  1862  .   . 
August  4,  1 862  . 
June  15,  i86j     . 
July,  1863,  Draft 
October  17,  1863 
February  i,  1864 
March  14,  1864 
April  23,  1864  . 
July  18,  1864  .   . 
December  19,  1864 


582,74! 

300,00c 
300,00c 
100,00c 

300,000 
200,000 
200,000 
85,000 
500,000 
300,000  I 


3  months. 

3  years. 
3  months. 

3  years. 
9  months. 
6  months. 

3  years. 

3  years. 

100  days. 

2,  3  years. 

2,  3  years. 


2,942.748' 


73.391 
611,827 

334.835 
334.835 
militia. 


467.434 

186,981 
113,000 

346,746 
290,000 


93.326 
714.231 

15,007 
431,958 

87.588 

16,361 


374.807 

384,021 

83.652 
384.'' 
204,568 


2.759.049  2.690,401  139.095  i5J.785t 


9  CO 

as 


1,560 
34.868 


19,080 
19,080 


26,597 

10,639 
4.000 

21,965 
1,306 


3,736 
32,177 


I\5I9 

16,685 

103 


2i,4»3 

18,876 
6,809 

3>-739 
3.728 


Citizen  in  the  Navy  (not  included  in  above  count) 
Allotted  by  Navy  Commissioners 


a 


76 


'1 

19  J- 


166 
38 


38 
446 


*  Congress  passed  acts  on  the  22d,  25th  and  31st  July,  1861,  authorizing 
the  President  to  accept  the  services  of  volunteers,  either  as  cavalry,  infantry 
or  artillery,  in  such  numbers  not  exceeding  1,000,000,  as  he  might  deem 
necessary  for  the  purpose  of  repelling  invasion  and  suppressing  insurrection. 

t  "  Of  the  number  of  troops  mustered  into  the  United  States'  service  for 
a  less  period  than  six  months  (including  all  three  months'  men),  not  here- 
tofore credited  on  any  quota  since  the  commencement  of  the  Rebellion, 
but  which  would  have  been  proper  credit  upon  any  subsequent  call,  in  ac- 
cordance with  provisions  of  section  15th  of  acts  of  March  3d,  1865,  Massa- 
chusetts furnished  4,983  men  for  three  months,  6,809  for  one  hundred  days, 
and  121  for  four  months.  Total,  11,913  ;  equal  to  3,157  years  of  service,  or 
1,052  men  for  three  years." 

17 


XII. 

I  86  1-5. 


Relief  of  Soldiers  and  their  Families. 

In  all  of  the  cities  and  towns  of  the  Commonwealth, 
large  contributions  of  money,  clothing,  and  other  articles, 
were  being  made  during  the  entire  period  of  the  war.  In 
many,  in  most  of  these  cities  and  towns,  there  was  one  or 
more  organized  societies  for  the  disbursement  of  these 
contributions.  Melrose  had  no  such  regularly  organized 
association,  although  much  was  done  for  the  benefit  of  the 
soldier  and  his  family  by  the  Town  and  by  individuals. 
Of  the  unnumbered  private  donations  of  money,  of  boxes 
and  packages  of  soldiers'  necessities  and  luxuries,  sent  by 
patriotic  mothers  and  sisters,  who  can  fully  estimate  their 
value,  or  the  benefit  derived  therefrom  } 

The  generous  sympathy  and  munificent  gifts,  not  only  of 
our  own  citizens,  but  of  the  entire  people,  for  the  soldiers 
and  their  cause,  were  wonderful.  These  gifts  were  "  from 
every  department  of  social,  business  and  religious  life  ; 
from  every  age,  sex  and  condition  of  our  community  ;  by 
gifts,  by  toil,  by  skill  and  handiwork ;  out  of  the  basket 
and  the  store,  and  out  of  the  full  hearts  of  the  community, 
—  they  have  poured  through  countless  channels  of  benev- 
olence." ^ 

'  As  an  instance  of  this  hearty  generosity,  only  one  of  many ;  nine  car-loads 
of  hospital  stores  left  Boston  after  battles  of  "Groveton,"  "Second  Bull 
Run,"  and  "  Chantilly,"  which  ended  the  campaign  under  Major-General 
John  Pope. 


CITIZENS     SUBSCRIPTION. 


»3i 


At  the  first  regularly  called  Town  Meeting  that  was 
held  after  the  breaking  out  of  the  Rebellion,  —  May  6, 
1861,  —  three  thousand  dollars  {$3,000)  were  appropriated 
for  the  relief  of  volunteers  and  their  families,  according  to 
the  vote  already  given  on  a  previous  page,  the  Selectmen 
being  appointed  a  Committee  of  disbursement. 

At  the  annual  Town  Meeting  in  March,  1862,  twenty- 
five  hundred  dollars  ($2,500)  were  appropriated  for  the 
same  purpose,  to  aid  the  families  of  volunteers,  as  pro- 
vided by  Chap.  222,  Statutes  of  1861,  wherein  it  was 
enacted  that  the  State  should  reimburse  the  cities  and 
towns,  to  a  certain  amount  per  family,  the  sums  thus  paid  ; 
and  regularly,  at  each  annual  Town  Meeting,  during  the 
continuance  of  the  war,  a  vote  of  similar  import  was  unan- 
imously passed. 

In  July,  1862,  at  the  solicitation  of  Mr.  William  F. 
Poole,  a  subscription  of  three  hundred  and  forty  dollars 
($340)  was  made  by  the  following  gentlemen,  for  the 
"  purpose  of  promoting  recruiting  in  Melrose ;  for  equal- 
izing the  bounties  of  those  patriotic  citizens  who  have 
already  enhsted  ;  and  for  the  benefit  of  the  families  which 
the  quota  frorn  Melrose  shall  leave  behind  them." 

Hon.  Samuel  E.  Sewall 
Hon.  Daniel  W.  Gooch 
Andrew  J.  Morse 
George  W.  Heath 
John  S.  Higgins 
Philip  B.  Holmes 
William  F.  Poole 
Lewis  G.  Coburn 
Charles  Kastner . 

$340  00 


^75 

00 

50 

00 

50 

00 

50 

00 

30 

00 

25 

00 

25 

00 

25 

00 

10 

00 

132  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

This  amount  was  disbursed,  mostly  in  aid  of  the  fami- 
lies of  volunteers,  by  the  Treasurer  of  the  fund,  Mr.  An- 
drew J.  Morse. 

Guiding  Star  Lodge,  No.  28,  Independent  Order  of  Good 
Templars,  sent  to  the  seat  of  war,  on  two  different  occa- 
sions during  the  years  1861  and  1862,  a  box  and  barrel  of 
general  hospital  stores,  blankets,  drawers,  reading  matter, 
etc.  The  first  lot  was  sent  to  the  encampment  of  the 
Thirteenth  Massachusetts  Regiment,  to  the  care  of  John 
H.  Crocker,  of  Co.  A,  and  the  latter  to  the  hospitals  in 
Washington. 

At  the  annual  Town  Meeting  in  March,  1863,  it  was 
voted  that  the  poll-tax  of  all  the  soldiers  in  the  field, 
belonging  to  Melrose,  and  all  who  should  go  during  the 
year  ensuing,  should  be  abated  ;  and  also  that  the  poll-tax 
of  all  who  from  wounds  or  disability  had  been  discharged 
from  the  service  of  the  United  States,  should  be  abated. 

At  the  Town  Meeting  held  June  8,  1863,  it  was  voted 
to  set  off  and  appropriate  a  portion  of  "Wyoming  Ceme- 
tery "  as  a  free  burial-place  for  all  soldiers  engaged  in  the 
war,  and  for  the  families  of  such  soldiers  as  might  choose 
to  use  the  same. 

For  the  two  or  three  days  immediately  following  the 
"Battle  of  Gettysburg,"  July  1-3,  1863,  — and  very  great 
was  the  excitement  in  our  town  and  throughout  the  North 
at  this  time,  as  we  all  remember,  —  the  studies  in  our 
schools  were  suspended,  and  teachers  and  scholars  spent 
the  school  hours  in  preparing  lint  for  hospital  use.  In 
this  manner  a  large  quantity  was  gathered  and  sent  to  the 
hospitals  on  and  around  the  battle-field. 

At  a  meeting  held  Nov.  14,  1863,  it  was  voted  that  the 
Recruiting  Committee, — which  consisted  of  the  Select- 
men, Colonel  John   H.   Clark,  William  B.   Burgess  and 


CONTRIBUTIONS    OF    THE    CHURCHES.  I35 

George  M.  Fletcher,  and  Messrs.  Stephen  W.  Shelton, 
Isaac  Emerson,  Jr.,  Rufus  Smith  and  Charles  H.  Isburgh, 
—  should  "  look  after  the  interests  of  the  families  of  vol- 
unteers who  are  now,  or  may  be  hereafter,  in  the  service 
of  the  United  States,  and  see  that  they  are  properly  pro- 
vided for."  A  subscription  fund  was  also  raised  at  this 
time  to  "  give  all  the  families  of  volunteers  belonging  to 
Melrose,  then  in  service,  means  to  provide  for  them  such 
a  Thanksgiving  dinner  as  they  are  most  deservedly  enti- 
tled to." 

At  the  fall  election  of  this  year, —  1863,  —  Mr.  Isaac 
Emerson,  Jr.,  was  chosen,  for  the  second  time.  Represen- 
tative to  the  Massachusetts  Legislature.  Instead  of  giv- 
ing a  reception  to  his  constituents  and  friends  at  his  resi- 
dence, as  he  did  the  previous  year,  he  donated  the  sum  of 
one  hundred  dollars  (^100)  to  the  "Christian  Commis- 
sion." Consequently  the  "  guard  at  the  front "  received 
the  benefit,  rather  than  the  members  of  the  "  home 
guard." 

At  different  times  during  the  war,  a  number  of  contri- 
butions were  taken  up  in  our  various  churches  in  aid  of 
those  wonderful  monuments  of  the  free-will  offerings  of 
the  loyal  North,  the  "  Christian  "  and  "  Sanitary  Commis- 
sions." ^ 

The  contributions  of  the  "  Orthodox  Congregational 
Church "  for  the  "  Christian  Commission,"  during  the 
years  1863,  4,  5,  amounted  to  three  hundfed  and  thirty 
dollars  and  six  cents  ($330.06),  besides  eighty-five  dollars 


'  The  total  value  of  cask,  stores  and  publications  distributed  by  the 
•'  Christian  Commission  "  during  the  war,  was  $5,478,280.31  ;  $2,524,512.56 
of  which  was  donated  in  cash.  Total  amount  received  and  distributed  by 
the  "  Sanitary  Commission  "  was  $4,924,048.09. 


134  I'HE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

and  twenty  cents  (1^85.20)  contributed  for  the  benefit  of 
sick  and  wounded  soldiers  in  the  hospitals  at  Washington, 
which  amount  was  sent  to  and  distributed  by  Mrs.  Gooch, 
— wife  of  Hon.  Daniel  W.  Gooch,  then  our  Representative 
in  Congress  from  this  District,  —  whose  visits  and  kind- 
nesses will  long  be  remembered  by  many  a  soldier. 

The  "Universalist  Church"  contributed  fifty  dollars 
(^50)  to  the  "  Sanitary  Commission,"  besides  sending  sev- 
eral boxes  of  articles  suitable  for  the  sick  and  disabled 
soldiers  in  Washington.  These  were  sent  to  and  distrib- 
uted by  Mrs.  Emma  Nichols  Marden. 

The  "Methodist  Episcopal  Church  "  and  the  "Baptist 
Church  "  also  contributed  to  the  same  object,  but  no  rec- 
ord was  made  of  the  amount,  therefore  the  sums  cannot 
be  given  here. 

A  vocal  and  instrumental  concert  was  given  May  30, 
1864,  at  Lyceum  Hall,  under  the  auspices  of  Mr.  John  H. 
B.  Henderson,  the  proceeds  of  which  were  for  the  benefit 
of  our  sick  and  wounded  soldiers.  The  sum  of  eighty- 
seven  dollars  (1^87)  was  paid  into  the  treasury  of  the 
"  Christian  Commission." 

During  the  first  year  of  the  war,  many  of  our  ladies 
met  in  Lyceum  Hall,  a  number  of  days  in  succession,  for 
the  purpose  of  making  and  collecting  garments  and  arti- 
cles of  all  kinds  suitable  for  the  sick  and  wounded  soldiers 
in  our  hospitals.  A  large  collection  of  comforts  and  lux- 
uries was  thus  made  and  collected. 

Barrels,  boxes  and  bundles  of  such  necessary  articles, 
including  garments,  hospital  stores,  reading  matter,  etc., 
were  also  collected  at  later  times  in  the  war  by  some  of 
our  public-spirited  and  patriotic  ladies,  and  forwarded  to 
either  the  "  Christian  "  or  "  Sanitary  Commissions."  That 
these  various  collection?  were  ever  welcomed  by,  and  were 


A  soldier's  gratitude.  135 

the  source  of  great  comfort  to  our  brave  boys,  suffering 
from  wounds  received  on  the  battle-field,  or  from  diseases 
contracted  in  the  service,  is  made  evident  by  the  following 
letter  from  Lieutenant  O.  D.  Robinson,  of  the  Ninth  New 
Hampshire  Regiment,  written  to  a  lady  in  our  town,  soon 
after  the  reception  of  one  of  these  boxes  : 


Mt.  Pleasant  Hospital, 
Mrs  *  *  * 


Washington,  D.  C,  June  24,  1864. 


I 


Dear  Madam  : —  Last  week  a  large  box  arrived  at  this  Hos- 
pital filled  with  minor  boxes  and  bags,  each  of  which  contained 
numerous  comforts  and  luxuries  for  "  sick  and  wounded  sol- 
diers," and  I  can  assure  you  that  the  valuable  gifts  found  plenty 
of  eager  recipients.  To  me  was  given  a  bag  containing  a  nice 
pair  of  woollen  socks,  a  linen  handkerchief,  pocket  Testament, 
etc.,  etc.  In  the  Testament  was  a  brief  note  bearing  the  signa- 
ture to  which  I  am  addressing  this  humble  missive. 

I  trust,  Dear  Madam,  the  gifts  you  have  so  freely  donated 
have  not  been  given  in  vain,  and  I  hope  not  unworthily  be- 
stowed. Many  who  that  day  received  presents  from  friends 
unknown  before,  will  soon  return  to  their  native  homes  to  rest 
from  the  toils  and  hardships  of  war,  having  been  disabled  by 
wounds  received  in  the  recent  battles.  Others  from  the  same 
cause  may  live  but  a  few  days  to  enjoy  their  gifts  ;  while  others 
still,  like  myself,  will  soon  return  to  engage  anew  in  the  bloody 
contest.  I  have  not  been  wounded,  but  having  participated  in 
the  bloody  fights  of  Wilderness,  Spottsylvania,  North  Anna 
River  and  Cool  Arbor,  having  endured  in  common  with  others 
the  hardships  and  exposures  attendant  upon  such  a  campaign, 
and  then  suffering  from  a  fresh  attack  of  intermittent  fever, 
contracted  last  summer  in  the  swamps  of  Louisiana  and  Mis- 
sissippi, I  was  compelled  to  leave  the  field  for  a  few  days  to 
obtain  rest  and  medical  treatment.  I  arrived  in  Washington  on 
the  loth  inst,  and  shall  return  in  the  course  of  three  or  four 


136  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

days.  Of  socks  I  was  nearly  destitute,  and  had  lost  my  pocket 
Testament,  which  is  always  my  constant  companion.  Accept 
my  thanks  for  these  same  articles  received  through  your  benev- 
olence. I  prize  them  the  more,  because,  receiving  them  as  I 
do  from  those  I  have  never  seen  or  known  even  by  reputation, 
I  feel  that  thousands  of  hearts  are  in  sympathy  with  us  in  this 
unprecedented  struggle,  and  that  the  Matrons  and  Daughters 
throughout  New  England  are  the  Mothers  and  Sisters  of  those 
who  are  fighting  for  our  Nation's  honor  and  institutions. 

But  I  am  intruding  too  largely  upon  your  time  and  more  upon 
your  patience.  It  was  my  intention  to  write  but  a  note.  I  shall 
go  back  to  my  comrades  refreshed  after  my  short  respite,  and 
encouraged  to  faithfully  perform  my  duty,  by  the  kindness  I 
have  received  from  friends  present  and  absent. 

I  am.  Dear  Madam,  a  true  friend  to  all  lovers  of  our  Country 
and  our  Country's  Flag.  • 

Lieutenant  O.  D.  Robinson, 

Co.  E,  gth  JV.  H.  FA 

Our  fellow-citizen.  Rev.  John  C.  Ingalls,  spent  the  win- 
ters of  1 86 1,  2,  3  in  Washington,  D.  C.  ;  and  on  one 
occasion,  during  this  time,  he  raised  the  sum  of  twelve 
hundred  dollars  ($1,200)  in  the  cities  of  Philadelphia,  New 
York,  Boston  and  Portland,  for  the  benefit  of  the  sick  and 
wounded  soldiers  at  the  Emory  Hospital  in  Washington, 
He  also  acted  as  Chaplain  of  this  hospital  for  a  number 
of  weeks,  without  pay,  during  the  sickness  of  its  regular 
Chaplain.  Besides  which,  he  raised  the  money  for  build- 
ing a  chapel  for  the  use  of  this  same  hospital. 


'  Lieutenant  Robinson  was  afterwards  promoted  Captain  of  his  company, 
and  remained  in  the  service  until  the  close  of  the  war. 


XIII. 


Our  "Roll  of  Honor.' 

"  High  on  the  world's  heroic  list, 
Shall  every  name  be  seen,  — 
And  time  among  the  cherished  dead 
Shall  keep  their  memories  green. 

"  The  patriot's  heart  shall  warmer  glow, 
When  standing  by  their  grave ; 
And  dearer  still  shall  be  the  flag 
They  welcomed  death  to  save." 

"  How  bright  are  the  honors  which  await  those  who,  with 
sacred  fortitude  and  patriotic  patience  have  endured  all  things 
that  they  might  save  their  native  land  from  division  and  from 
the  power  of  corruption.  The  honored  dead  !  They  that  die 
for  a  good  cause  are  redeemed  from  death.  Their  names  are 
gathered  and  garnered.     Their  memory  is  precious." 

All  generations  shall  commemorate  their  valor  and  their 
patriotism.  No  ties  of  kindred  can  irnpose  limitations  upon 
the  grief  and  gratitude  in  which  they  shall  be  held  and  treas- 
ured.    The  country  shall  be  their  monument.^ 


Of  the  two  hundred  and  three  (203)  Melrose  citizens 
that  served  in  the  ranks  of  our  annies  during  the  Rebel- 
lion, "  who  helped  open  the  Mississippi,  who  were  present 


'  Governor  Alexander  H.  Bullock,  at  the  funeral  of  Lieutenant-Colonel 
George  E.  Marshall,  of  the  Fortieth  Massachusetts  Regiment,  at  Fitchburg 
April  19,  1866. 
18 


138  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

at  Vicksburg,  Port  Hudson,  New  Orleans  and  Mobile, 
who  saw  the  starry  flag  as  it  ascended  Missionary  Ridge, 
and  witnessed  the  flight  of  Bragg  and  his  host ;  who 
marched  from  Atlanta  to  the  sea,  and  who  were  among 
those  who  so  long  struggled  between  Washington  and 
Richmond,  and  who  at  last  saw  the  rebel  flag  go  down 
upon  the  Appomattox,"  twenty-three  (23)  of  them,  or  about 
one  in  nine,  were  either  killed  on  the  battle-field  or  died  in 
consequence  of  services  rendered  in  the  great  contest. 
Six  (6)  were  killed  by  the  bullet  on  the  field,  and  the  rest 
died  in  camp,  in  hospital,  or  after  returning  to  their  homes. 

Two  (2)  commissioned  officers  and  twenty-one  (21)  en- 
listed men  constitute  the  oblation  made  by  Melrose  to 
Treason. 

Our  "  Roll  of  Honor "  —  containing  the  names  of  all 
of  our  citizens  that  we  have  been  able  to  learn,  whether 
they  served  on  our  quotas  or  not,  but  who  gave  their  lives 
for  their  country  —  is  as  follows  ;  name,  regiment,  com- 
pany, cause  and  date  of  death : 

THE    "UNRETURNING    BRAVE." 

OFFICERS. 

LIEUT.    GEORGE    J.    MORSE. 

Private  Co.  A,  Thirteenth  Regiment ;  2d  Lieutenant  in 
2d  U.  S.  Col.  Troops  ;  ist  Lieutenant  Co.  G,  Fifty-Ninth 
Regiment ;  killed  at  the  "  Battle  of  Spottsylvania,"  May 
12,  1864. 

LIEUT.    GEORGE    T.    MARTIN, 

1st  Lieutenant  Co.  K,  Thirty-Eighth  Regment ;  Senior  ist 
Lieutenant  Co.  G,  Fourth  Heavy  Artillery ;  died  at  Mas- 
sachusetts General  Hospital,  March  13,  1865,  of  pyoemia. 


THE    "UNRETURNING    BRAVE."  IJQ 


PRIVATES. 

HENRY    F.    FULLER. 

Co.  A,  Seventeenth  Regiment ;  died  at  Baltimore,  Md.,  Oct. 
6,  1 86 1,  of  typhoid  fever. 

MARTIN    GREENE. 

Co.  G,  Second  Regiment  ;    died  of  wounds  received  at 
"Battle  of  Cedar  Mountain,"  Aug.  9,  1862. 

WILLIAM    H.    MACEY. 

Co.  F,  Third  Maine  Regiment ;  died  at  Alexandria,  Va., 
Aug.  30,  1862,  of  typhoid  fever. 

SIDNEY    B.    MORSE,    2D. 

Co.  D,  Thirteenth  Regiment ;    died  at  Finley  Hospital, 
Washington,  D.  C,  Sept.  16,  1862,  of  typhoid  fever. 

WILLIAM    F.    BARRY. 

Co.  A,  Thirteenth  Regiment ;  killed  at  "  Battle  of  An- 
tietam,"  Sept.  17,  1862. 

JOHN    P.    SHELTON. 

Co.  A,  Thirteenth  Regiment ;    killed  at  "  Battle  of  An- 
tietam,"  Sept.  17.  1862. 

THOMAS    H.    STEVENS. 

Co.  A,  Sixteenth  Regiment ;  died  at  Boston,  March  26, 
1863,  of  chronic  diarrhoea. 

JONAS    G.    BROWN. 

Co.  E,  Fiftieth  Regiment ;  died  at  Baton  Rouge,  La.,  June 
18,  1863,  of  malarial  fever. 


140  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

BENJAMIN    LYNDE. 

Co.  K,  Thirty-Eighth  Regiment ;  died  at  Baton  Rouge, 
La.,  Aug.  18,  1863,  of  chronic  diarrhoea. 

NATHAN    H.    BRAND. 

Ninth  Battery ;  died  at  Emory  Hospital,  Washington,  D. 
C,  March  6,  1864,  of  cholera  morbus. 

RICHARD    LEVER. 

Co.  A,  Fifty-Ninth  Regiment.;  killed  at  "  Battle  of  Spott- 
sylvania,"  May  12,  1864. 

AUGUSTUS    GREEN. 

Co.  G,  Twenty-Second  Regiment ;    killed  at   "  Battle  of 
Bethesda  Church,"  June  3,  1864. 

EDMUND    W.    DAVIS. 

Co.  G,  Twenty-Second  Regiment ;  died  at  Melrose,  July 
22,  1864,  of  consumption  and  heart  disease. 

ALBERT    W.    CROCKETT 

Co.  K,  Seventeenth  Regiment ;  died  in  "  Andersonville 
Prison,"  Aug.  i,  1864. 

JAMES    R.    HOWARD. 

Co.  K,  Thirty-Eighth  Regiment ;  died  at  Melrose,  Aug. 
16,  1864,  of  chronic  diarrhoea. 

FRANCIS    PEABODY. 

Co.  K,  Seventeenth  Regiment ;  died  at  New  Berne,  N. 
C,  Oct.  3,  1864,  of  yellow  fever. 

GEORGE    E.    RICHARDSON. 

Co.  K,  Thirty-Eighth  Regiment;  died  in  "  Salisbury  Pris- 
on," Nov.  3,  1864. 


THE    '*  UN  RETURNING    BRAVE."  14^ 

BENJAMIN    F.    WILDE. 

Co.  H,  Forty-Second  Regiment ;  re-enlisted  in  Regular 
Infantry;  afterward  in  Eleventh  New  York  Cavalry; 
accidentally  shot  in  fall  of  1864. 

JOHN    E.    STILPHEN. 

Second  Battery  ;  died  at  Melrose,  June  25,  1865,  of  hemor- 
rhoids. 

GEORGE    W.    LYNDE. 

Co.  A,  Seventeenth  Regiment ;  died  at  Melrose,  Jan.  30, 
1.866,  of  consumption. 

WILLIAM    F.    KRANTZ. 

Co.  C,  Thirty-Third  Regiment ;  Veteran  Reserve  Corps ; 
died  at  Melrose,  June  13,  1866,  of  dropsy  and  heart 
disease. 

We  cannot  speak  individually  of  all  the  "  fallen  brave  " 
whose  names  are  here  given,  although  all  deserve  equal 
mention.  They  have  rendered  up  their  lives  in  behalf  of 
what  to  us  was  a  mighty  and  vital  question,  and  we  would 
hold  their  memory  in  veneration,  remembering  that 

"  They  never  fail 
Who  die  in  a  great  cause."  ♦ 

And  with  the  scholarly  and  lamented  Everett,  standing 
on  the  blood-stained  field  of  Gettysburg,  at  the  consecra- 
tion of  its  National  Cemetery,  we  would  feel  as  never 
before  how  justly  "from  the  dawn  of  history  to  the  pres- 
ent time,  men  have  paid  the  homage  of  their  gratitude  and 
admiration  to  the  memory  of  those  who  nobly  sacrifice 


142  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

their  lives,  that  their  fellow-men  may  live  in  safety  and  in 
honor." 

"  The  muffled  drum's  sad  roll  has  beat 
The  soldier's  last  tattoo ; 
No  more  on  life's  parade  shall  meet 

That  brave  and  fallen  few. 
On  Fame's  eternal  camping-ground  ' 

Their  silent  tents  are  spread, 
And  glory  guards  with  solemn  round 
The  bivouac  of  the  dead." 


OUR  "roll  of  honor."  143 


HENRY    FRANKLIN    FULLER. 

Private  in  Co.  A,  Seventeenth  Regiment  Massachusetts 
Volunteers;  died  at  Baltimore,  Md.,  Oct.  6,  1861,  of 
disease  contracted  in  the  service. 

Henry  Franklin  Fuller,  the  youngest  son  of  William  E. 
and  Mary  (Boardman)  Fuller,  was  born  in  Melrose,  March 
5,  1844. 

The  old  family  names  of  Melrose,  or  what  was  the 
northern  part  of  Maiden,  were  well  represented  in  the 
great  struggle  between  Right  and  Wrong ;  and  in  the  list 
of  dead  we  find  the  names  of  Brown,  Fuller,  Howard  and 
Lynde. 

Fuller  was  one  of  our  youngest  soldiers,  and  was  the 
first  one,  belonging  to  Melrose,  that  laid  down  his  life  in 
the  service  of  his  country. 

The  disaster  of  the  first  "  Bull  Run  Battle "  had  been 
realized,  when  young  Fuller,  like  so  many  more  of  our 
noble  and  brave,  felt  called  upon  to  offer  himself  to  go 
forth  to  battle ;  and  on  the  6th  of  August,  he  went  to 
"  Camp  Schouler,"  at  Lynnfield,  and  enlisted  in  Co.  A, 
Seventeenth  Massachusetts  Regiment.  For  some  two 
months  previous  to  this  time,  the  duty  of  thus  offer- 
ing himself  to  the  cause  of  liberty  had  been  revolving 
itself  in  his  mind,  but  he  did  not  enlist  until  the  above 
date. 

The  Seventeenth  Regiment  left  the  State  on  the  23d  of 
August,  and  proceeded  to  "  Camp  Andrew,"  at  Baltimore, 
Md.,  where  Fuller  underwent  the  hardships  incident  to  the 
uncomfortable  state  of  the  camping-ground,  which,  accord- 
ing to  the  following  extract  from  a  letter,  written  by  Cap- 


144  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

tain  Joseph  R.  Simonds  to  the  Selectmen  of  Maiden/  was 
anything  but  agreeable  or  conducive  to  good  health. 

How  would  the  soldier  at  home  like  lying  upon  the  bare 
earth  every  night  for  six  weeks,  with  nothing  but  a  thin  rubber 
blanket  under  him,  and  a  thinner  woollen  one  over  him,  and  a 
knapsack  for  a  pillow  ? 

Up  to  the  time  of  Fuller's  death,  the  regiment  had  been 
engaged  in  no  battle  or  expeditions  ;  but  whatever  duties 
were  incumbent  upon  him,  he  performed  faithfully  and 
well,  until  the  ist  of  October,  when  he  was  taken  sick, 
with  the  typhoid  fever,  which  terminated  his  life  October 
6,  1861. 

His  body  was  brought  home  and  buried  in  the  Melrose 
Cemetery. 

"  He,  the  young  and  strong,  who  cherished 

Noble  longings  for  the  strife. 
By  the  roadside  fell  and  perished, 
Weary,  with  the  march  of  life." 


'  Captain  Simonds,  of  our  town,  was  in  command  of  Co.  K,  Seventeenth 
Regiment,  known  as  the  Maiden  company,  and  in  which  Melrose  had  sev- 
eral men. 


OUR  "roll  of  honor."  145 

SIDNEY    BRADFORD    MORSE,    2D. 

Private  in  Co.  D,  Thirteenth  Massachusetts  Regiment ; 
Color  Corporal,  July  5,  1862  ;  died  at  the  Finley  Hos- 
pital, Washington,  D.  C,  Sept.  16,  1862,  of  disease  con- 
tracted in  the  service. 

"  There  is  a  history  in  almost  every  home  of  Massachusetts, 
which  will  never  be  written  ;  but  the  memory  of  kindred  has  it 
embalmed  forever.  The  representatives  of  the  pride  and  hope 
of  uncounted  households,  departing,  will  return  no  more." 

Sidney  Bradford  Morse,  2d,  was  the  second  son  of 
George  H.  and  Sarah  (Bird)  Morse,  and  was  born  Dec. 
28,  1844,  in  Charlestown,  Mass.  He  was  one  of  the 
youngest  of  our  soldier  boys  ;  but  he  was  old  enough  to 
fully  comprehend  the  danger  which  threatened  our  coun- 
try, and  was  at  once  aroused  at  the  dark  clouds  gathering 
over  it.  At  the  time  of  the  breaking  out  of  the  Rebellion 
he  was  employed  in  his  father's  agricultural  warehouse,  in 
Boston  ;  and  upon  the  day  our  Massachusetts  men  were 
shot  down  in  the  streets  of  Baltimore,  —  the  19th  of 
April,  1 86 1, — young  Sidney  hurried  home,  saying  to  his 
mother  that  he  had  a  request  to  make  of  her,  which  was 
that  he,  —  together  with  his  older  brother  George, — 
might  be  permitted  to  enlist,  in  response  to  the  Presi- 
dent's call,  and  help  uphold  our  dear  old  flag,  and  put  down 
their  country's  enemies.  Of  course  the  mother  hesitated, 
—  what  mother  would  not .''  —  before  she  could  yield  to  his 
importunities,  and  say : 

Go,  save  our  country  !  she  is  first  — 

Stand  guard  until  you  fall ; 
Or  till  the  danger  overcome 
Shall  respite  the  alarum-drum  — 

I  will  delay  recall. 
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146  THE    MELROSE     MEMORIAL. 

Go,  where  along  the  lurid  front 

The  Union  vanguards  tramp  ! 
Do  your  whole  duty,  danger  spurn. 
When  Freedom  's  laurelled,  then  return  — 

These  arms  shall  be  your  camp  ! 

Upon  receiving  an  affirmative  reply,  Sidney  embraced 
his  mother,  and  ardently  thanked  her,  saying  that  however 
much  he  may  have  deemed  it  his  duty  to  go,  he  never 
should  have  gone  with  the  sin  of  disobedience  to  her  rest- 
ing upon  him  ;  saying  also :  "  I  have  neither  houses  nor 
land  to  give,  but  I  am  willing  to  give  my  life  for  my  coun- 
try ! "     And  truly  did  his  actions  verify  the  assertion. 

He  enlisted  at  once,  —  as  did  also  his  brother  George, 
—  in  the  Fourth  Battalion  of  Rifles,  which  was  soon  after- 
wards sent  to  Fort  Independence,  Boston  Harbor,  where 
it  was  recruited  to  a  full  regiment,  —  the  Thirteenth,  — 
under  the  command  of  Colonel  Samuel  H.  Leonard. 

He  left  Boston  with  his  regiment,  July  30,  1861,  and 
performed  a  soldier's  duties  with  earnestness  and  devotion 
through  the  various  hard  marches,  severe  skirmishes  and 
daily  fatigues  of  the  fall  and  winter  campaign  under  Gen- 
eral Banks,  on  the  Upper  Potomac,  and  thence  down 
through  Virginia  to  the  still  severer  marchings  and  fight- 
ings of  General  Pope's  campaign,  ending  with  "  Grove- 
ton,"  "Second  Bull  Run,"  and  "Chantilly,"  in  August, 
1862  ;  being  constantly  exposed  to  hardship,  day  and 
night ;  yet  passing  through  all  thus  far  uninjured,  but 
very  much  worn  and  fatigued  ;  so  much  so,  that  he  was 
repeatedly  urged  to  go  into  the  camp  hospital  and  recruit ; 
but  he  would  not  leave  his  post,  and  on  the  night  before 
the  "  Second  Bull  Run  Battle,"  he  was  found  on  the 
picket  line,  entirely  exhausted,  and  taken  to  the  rear.  He 
was  placed  on  an  open  car,  with  other  sick  and  wounded 


SIDNEY    BRADFORD    MORSE,    2D.  I47 

soldiers,  and  started  for  Washington ;  but,  owing  to  the 
great  confusion  of  those  days  of  battle,  he  was  two  nights 
and  one  day  on  the  way,  entirely  uncared  for ;  no  food, 
not  even  a  drink  of  water ;  and  when  he  arrived  at  the 
"  Finley  Hospital,"  a  typhoid  fever  was  raging  fearfully. 
From  that  time,  the  fever  had  taken  so  firm  a  hold  of  him, 
he  grew  worse  and  worse  until  the  day  of  his  death,  — 
Sept.  16,  —  about  a  fortnight  after  reaching  Washington. 

The  Hospital  Chaplain,  Rev.  W.  W.  Winchester,  for 
several  days  previous  to  Sidney's  death,  repeated  passages 
of  Scripture  to  him,  and  talked  with  him  concerning  that 
other  and  "  better  land  "  ;  and  during  his  last  moments,  — 
his  father  having  arrived  and  being  present,  —  he  read  the 
beautiful  Twenty-Third  Psalm  ;  Sidney,  then,  as  always 
before,  greatly  enjoying  the  consolations  of  Holy  Writ ; 
after  which  his  spirit  took  its  flight  to  the  soldier's  home 
with  perfect  calmness  and  serenity.  1 

Although  but  a  lad  of  seventeen  and  a  half  years  of  age, 
young  Morse  was  a  brave  and  a  thorough  soldier.  It  is 
the  universal  testimony  of  officers  and  comrades,  that, 
young  though  he  was,  he  made  one  of  the  best  and  tru- 
est ;  never  shrinking  from  any  post,  however  dangerous  ; 
and  he  bore  the  hardships  incident  to  camp  life,  and  the 
fatigues  of  the  long  and  wearisome  marches  of  the  Regi- 
ment through  various  parts  of  Virginia,  with  perfect 
cheerfulness  and  heroic  fortitude.  He  was  sick  long 
before  he  was  found  exhausted,  and  should  have  left  the 


'  Mr.  Winchester  says,  in  a  letter  of  condolence  to  Sidney's  parents  : 
"  May  God  bless  and  comfort  the  mothers  who  give  their  sons  !  I  stand 
amazed  at  the  fortitude  which  they  sometimes  exhibit,  when  they  speak  of 
the  sacrifices  which  they  make.  God  sees  how  they  give  those  dearer  to 
them  than  their  heart's  blood,  and  God  will  reward  with  blessings  richer 
and  purer  than  any  this  earth  can  afford." 


148  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

field ;  but  he  was  too  earnest  and  ardent  in  his  work  to 
allow  himself  to  do  so,  and  would  not  leave,  so  long  as  he 
had  strength.  At  the  time  he  left  his  regiment  he  held 
the  position  of  Right  General  Guide,  with  rank  of  Cor- 
poral. 

The  letters  of  young  Morse  were  full  of  love  and  con- 
fidence, fearlessness  of  death,  and  words  of  kindness  and 
sympathy  for  his  parents  in  case  he  should  fall  in  battle, 
or  die  in  the  hospital ;  often  saying,  that  if  he  should  lay 
down  his  life  it  would  be  in  a  just  and  holy  cause.  His 
remains  were  embalmed  and  brought  to  Melrose,  and 
buried  in  Mount  Auburn  Cemetery ;  the  funeral  ceremo- 
nies being  held  September  27,  at  the  Universalist  Church, 
a  large  and  sympathizing  congregation  being  present. 

Patriotism !  bravery !  duty !  all  are  embraced  in  the 
action  and  career  of  the  young  and  noble  soldier,  Sidney 
Bradford  Morse. 

"  With  us  his  name  shall  live, 
Through  long  succeeding  years, 
Embalmed  with  all  our  hearts  can  give  — 
Our  praises  and  our  tears." 


OUR  "roll  of  honor."  149 


WILLIAM    FRANCIS    BARRY. 

Private  in  Co.  A,  Thirteenth  Massachusetts  Regiment ; 
killed  at  the  "Battle  of  Antietam,"  Sept.  17,  1862. 

Who  dies  in  vain 
Upon  his  country's  war-fields,  and  within 
The  shadow  of  her  altars  ? 

William  Francis  Barry,  another  of  our  youngest  sol- 
diers, was  the  second  son  of  Royal  P.  and  Elizabeth  (Ser- 
rat)  Barry,  and  was  born  in  Boston  on  the  13th  of  Decem- 
ber, 1843.  At  the  breaking  out  of  the  Rebellion  he  was 
a  clerk  in  the  house  of  E.  W.  Wheelock  &  Co.,  Boston, 
dealers  in  tailors'  trimmings.  One  year  later,  after  the 
reverses  to  the  Union  army  under  General  McClellan, 
before  the  gates  of  Richmond,  and  at  the  time  when  the 
President  was  calling  for  still  further  re-enforcements, 
young  Barry  felt  it  his  duty  to  go  forth  and  battle  for  his 
country.  In  conversation  upon  the  subject  at  this  time, 
he  said : 

"I  don't  wish  to  leave  home,  but  rather  stay,  —  but  just  such 
young  men  as  I  am  are  called  for ;  I  am  well  and  strong ;  and 
it  is  my  duty  to  go."  « 

When  reminded  that  by  so  doing  he  might  lose  his  life, 
his  noble  answer  was  : 

"  What  is  life  without  a  country  ? " 

It  was  not  an  easy  task  for  the  widowed  mother  to  part 
with  her  beloved  boy ;  but,  with  thousands  of  other 
mothers,  she  realized  the  country's  necessities,  and,  lis- 


150  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

tening  to  the  spirit  of  the  following  lines,  finally  acceded 
to  his  request : 

"Can  you  selfishly  cling  to  your  household  joys, 
Refusing  this  smallest  tithe  to  yield, 
While  thousands  of  mothers  are  sending  boys 

Beloved  as  yours  to  the  battle-field  ? 
Can  you  see  my  country  call  in  vain, 

And  restrain  my  arm  from  the  needful  blow  ? 
Not  so  ;  though  your  heart  should  break  with  pain. 
You  will  kiss  me,  mother,  and  let  me  go." 

And,  with  others,  —  among  whom  was  his  bosom  friend 
and  companion,  Charles  W.  Shelton,  —  he  enlisted  at  the 
war  meeting  held  Monday  evening,  July>28th,  1862,  was 
sworn  into  the  United  States'  service,  Aug.  4th,  at  Boston, 
and  sent  to  "  Camp  Cameron,"  at  Cambridge,  a  rendez- 
vous for  recruits  for  the  regiments  then  in  the  field. 

Previous  to  this  time,  when  the  Fourth  Battalion  of  In- 
fantry offered  its  services  to  the  Government  for  a  short 
term  of  enlistment,  young  Barry  entered  its  ranks  ;  but 
as  it  was  not  deemed  best  to  accept  any  troops  for  so 
short  a  time,  its  services  were  rejected. 

On  the  13th  of  August,  he  was  ordered,  with  other 
recruits,  to  the  seat  of  war,  passing  through  and  spending 
a  day  in  Washington  ;  and  joined  his  regiment,  then  on 
the  Rapid  Ann  River,  Va.,  on  the  18th,  a  short  time  pre- 
vious to  the  battles  of  "  Groveton,"  "  Second  Bull  Run," 
and  "  Chantilly,"  which  ended  the  campaign  under  Gen- 
eral Pope.  The  exigencies  of  the  service  were  such  at 
this  time  that  recruits  were  at  once  sent  to  the  front,  and 
into  active  service,  many  of  them  young  and  without  pre- 
vious drill  or  military  experience  of  any  kind  whatever ; 
this  was  the  case  with  young  Barry  and  his  •  companions 
from  Melrose  that  enlisted  in  this  emergency. 


WILLIAM    FRANCIS    BARRY.  \ ^\ 

The  day  after  he  joined  the  ranks,  according  to  his  let- 
ters home, 

"  Those  fallen  leaves  that  keep  their  green. 
The  noble  letters  of  the  dead," 

his  regiment  marched  twenty-three  miles,  during  which 
many  of  the  most  experienced  gave  out ;  but  the  raw 
recruits  bore  up  manfully  under  the  severe  trial. 

The  Thirteenth  participated  in  the  engagements  on  the 
Rappahannock  River,  from  Aug.  20th  to  the  24th  ;  Thor- 
oughfare Gap,  on  the  28th,  when  he  says,  "Three  men 
were  shot  down  near  me  "  ;  and  in  the  disastrous  battle  of 
"  Second  Bull  Run,"  on  the  30th,  when,  according  to  his 
pocket  diary,  "  The  bullets  whistled  like  hail,  and  a  round 
shot  struck  within  three  feet  of  me  and  threw  dirt  all  over 
me  ;  but  I  came  off  without  a  scratch  "  ;  and  in  a  letter 
written  while  in  camp  at  Hall's  Hill,  Va.,  four  miles  from 
the  capital,  he  says  : 

We  went  on  to  the  field  on  the  double  quick  and  with  hur- 
rah. I  never  was  so  excited  in  my  life  as  then.  On  the  Bat- 
tle-field I  felt  just  as  cool  as  a  man  could  be.  I  was  n't  fright- 
ened at  all  until  we  got  some  ways  back  on  the  retreat.  I 
was  helping  to  carry  off  a  wounded  man.  The  bullets,  shell 
and  shot  struck  all  round.  A  person  feels  much  more  fright- 
ened at  thinking  of  the  danger  after  he  has  been  through  it 
than  when  he  is  in  the  midst  of  it. 

Of  the  day  after  this  battle,  he  says  in  his  diary : 

Centreville  was  the  most  mixed  up  place  that  ever  I  saw. 
Artillery,  cavalry,  ammunition,  ambulances,  hacks,  and  every- 
thing under  the  sun.  Every  house,  barn  and  place  of  shelter 
crowded  with  wounded.  Men  of  every  regiment  in  the  field, 
hunting  and  inquiring  for  it,  —  nobody  knew  anything. 


152  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Then  came  the  Maryland  campaign,  with  its  hard 
marches,  the  "  Battle  of  South  Mountain,"  and  ending 
with  the  "  Battle  of  Antietam,"  The  last  entry  in  his 
diary  is  dated  September  8  ;  but  a  letter  to  his  brother 
Royal,  found  on  his  body  after  he  was  killed,  was  dated 
Ridgeville,  Md.,  Sept.  1 2,  five  days  previous  to  the  battle  ; 
and  the  following  extract  from  this,  his  last  letter,  gives  a 
slight  idea  of  the  hardships  incident  to  this  campaign : 

The  recruits  joined  us  three  days  ago  ;  they  stand  it  very 
well  so  far.  Yesterday  we  marched  about  eight  miles  ;  day 
before,  seventeen ;  the  first  was  a  pretty  hard  one  ;  the  day  was 
sultry,  and  the  sweat  poured  off  in  streams.  Near  the  end  of 
the  march  we  got  pretty  well  used  up.  My  shoulders  got  so 
sore  that  it  was  hard  work  to  tell  which  to  put  the  gun  on. 
When  we  went  into  camp  for  the  night  it  was  raining,  and  it 
rained  all  night.  I  woke  up  in  the  night  several  times,  and 
found  my  feet  in  a  pool  of  water ;  I  would  draw  them  up  and 
go  to  sleep  again. 

On  the  fatal  day,  the  17th  of  September,  the  Thirteenth 
Massachusetts  was  in  the  thickest  of  the  fight,  during  the 
early  part  of  the  day,  and  suffered  severe  losses  in  killed 
and  wounded.  Young  Barry  fought  as  well  and  as  brave- 
ly as  the  oldest  veteran,  until  he  was  shot  directly  through 
the  heart.  His  friend,  Charles  W.  Shelton,  writing  from 
Keedysville,  Md.,  on  the  19th,  two  days  after  the  battle, 
after  very  touchingly  alluding  to  their  intimacy,  his  sorrow 
at  his  death,  and  his  deep  sympathy  for  his  afflicted 
mother,  says : 

He  was  Willie  Barry  on  the  battle-field.  The  coolest,  brav- 
est, noblest  of  the  many  patriots  who  that  day  gave  themselves 
a  sacrifice  to  Liberty  and  Country  ! 

His  body  was  buried  on  the  battle-field.     Through  the 


WILLIAM    FRANCIS    BARRY.  I53 

kind  exertions  of  Mr,  Stephen  W.  Shelton  it  was  ex- 
humed and  brought  to  Melrose ;  and  on  the  29th  of 
September,  very  interesting  and  appropriate  funeral  cere- 
monies were  held  in  the  Baptist  Church,  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Edmands  delivering  the  commemorative  discourse ;  after 
which  all  that  was  mortal  of  brave  young  Willie  Barry 
was  laid  at  rest  in  Wyoming  Cemetery. 

"  So  prompt  at  duty's  call, 

So  dauntless  and  so  brave  ;  — 
To  shield  his  bleeding  Country's  life. 
His  blood,  his  life  he  gave. 

"  Rest,  Soldier,  Patriot,  Friend  ! 

In  your  young  manhood  rest ;  — 
Your  Country's  blessing  o'er  your  bier, 
Her  flag  above  your  breast. 

"  A  grateful  land  uprears 

Her  tribute  to  your  praise  : 
Yours  are  the  holiest  of  her  tears. 
The  greenest  of  her  bays." 


154  1"^^    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

JOHN    PARKER    SHELTON. 

Private  in  Co.  A,  Thirteenth  Regiment  Massachusetts 
Volunteers  ;  killed  at  the  "  Battle  of  Antietam,"  Sept. 
17,  1862. 

"  How  sweetly  they  sleep,  who  have  died  for  their  country, 
And  never  will  wake  for  the  combat  again, 
But  mantled  with  glory,  they  peacefully  slumber, 
And  rest  from  their  toil  in  the  graves  of  the  slain." 

John  Parker  Shelton  was  the  only  son  of  John  and  Ann 
(Kendall)  Shelton,  and  was  born  in  Boston,  June  8th, 
1844. 

He  graduated  as  a  medal  scholar  from  the  Chauncy 
School,  in  Boston,  about  the  time  of  the  breaking  out  of 
the  Rebellion  ;  after  which  he  entered  as  clerk  in  a  whole- 
sale clothing  house  in  that  city,  where  he  was  at  the  time 
of  his  enlistment,  Aug,  7th,  1862.  Most  of  our  young 
men  who  went  to  the  war  during  its  first  years  were  of  our 
best  families,  of  good  education  and  of  high  character  ; 
enlisting  from  a  true  sense  of  duty  and  pure  love  of  coun- 
try ;  not  from  the  novelty  of  the  occupation  or  mere  love 
of  excitement,  or  for  pecuniary  gain,  but  only  and  solely 
to  save  our  land  from  Treason's  grasp.  Thus  was  it  with 
young  Shelton.  He  enlisted  at  a  time  when  our  regi- 
ments and  batteries  had  been  depleted  by  many  battles, 
skirmishes  and  marches,  just  after  the  terrible  blow  and 
disheartening  result  of  the  Peninsular  campaign,  while 
General  McClellan  and  his  army  were  at  Harrison's  Land- 
ing on  the  James  River. 

"  He  gave  the  tribute  of  a  tear 
To  those  fond  hearts  who  held  him  dear, 
And  southward  turned —  a  volunteer  — 
The  oft-told  story. 


JOHN    PARKER     SHELTON.  I55 

To  right  the  wrong,  wipe  off  the  shame, 
He  cared  not  that  the  trump  of  Fame 
Should  sound  aloud  his  humble  name- 
In  tropes  of  glory. 

For  Union,  and  for  equal  laws. 

For  Liberty  —  the  grand  old  cause  ; 

How  could  he  speak  these  names  and  pause, 

Faltering,  uncertain  ? 
He  knew  not  what  Fate  had  in  store, 
Nor  cared  her  purpose  to  explore. 
But  calmly  waited  on,  before 

Her  awful  curtain." 

With  others  who  had  enlisted  in  the  Thirteenth  at  this 
time  he  was  forwarded  to  his  regiment,  and  joined  it  at 
Mechanicsville,  near  Washington,  after  the  defeat  of  our 
army  under  General  Pope;  when  the  "Second  Bull  Run 
Battle"  had  been  fought,  and  Lee's  invasion  of  Maryland 
had  begun.  Ten  days  afterward  the  great  "  Battle  of  An- 
tietam "  took  place.  Young  Shelton's  action  in  this,  his 
first  and  only  battle,  is  so  well  told  by  his  friend  and  com- 
panion,— Ambrose  Dawes,  —  that  his  letter  concerning 
him  is  here  introduced  : 

New  York,  July  4,  1867. 
Mr.  E.  H.  Goss  : 

Dear  Sir:  —  It  is  with  great  pleasure,  not,  indeed,  unmixed 
with  sadness,  that  I  comply  with  your  request  to  give  you  some 
account  of  the  last  hours  of  our  mutual  friend  and  neighbor, 
John  P.  Shelton.  The  noble  courage,  heroic  devotion  and 
pure  patriotism  of  that  young  life,  nipped  as  it  was  in  the  bud, 
cannot  be  too  highly  appreciated.  During  the  few  short  days 
he  was  with  the  regiment  he  endeared  himself  to  many,  and 
his  vivacious  temperament  did  much  towards  keeping  up  the 
spirits  of  his  companions  during  that  dark  hour  when  "  Bull  Run  " 
was  lost,  and  before  "  Antietam  "  was  gained. 


156  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Enlisting  with  no  other  thought  but  love  of  country,  he  went 
forth  to  fight  the  good  fight,  leaving  behind  him  everything 
which  makes  it  "  life  to  live,"  and  carrying  nothing  with  him 
but  the  prayers  of  dear  ones  to  shield  him  from  the  bullets  of 
the  enemy.  I  remember  his  coming  to  me  just  upon  the  eve  of 
the  battle,  —  perhaps  ten  minutes  before  it  opened,  —  looking 
very  pale,  —  as  we  probably  all  did,  —  and  saying  that  he  felt 
very  strangely,  and  as  if  he  should  never  return  from  that  field 
alive.  I  clasped  his  hand  in  mine,  and  encouraged  him  as  well 
as  I  could,  for  I  felt  no  fears  of  that  kind  myself,  and  we 
marched  together  into  the  fight.  Some  little  time  after  the  bat- 
tle commenced,  he  turned  to  me,  his  face  flushed  with  excite- 
ment, and  said  :  "  I  am  hit  in  the  foot,  but  shall  stick  to  it  and 
have  another  pop  at  them."  We  advised  him  to  quit  the  field 
in  vain.  This  was  the  last  time  I  saw  him.  Soon  after  I  saw 
young  Barry  fall  with  a  bullet  through  the  forehead.  I  went 
up  to  him,  but  he  was  dead,  and  drawing  him  behind  a  tree  out 
of  reach  of  bullets,  we  left  him.  Then  I  received  a  slight 
wound,  and  from  loss  of  blood,  being  too  weak  to  fight  any 
more,  left  the  field.  Shelton  remained  till  the  regiment  was 
ordered  to  the  rear,  to  make  room  for  re-enforcements,  after 
fighting  nearly  three  hours,  and  then,  instead  of  selfishly  look- 
ing out  for  himself,  he  volunteered  to  help  a  dying  comrade 
off  the  field,  although  he  himself  could  use  but  one  foot.  Thus 
slowly  helping  this  poor  fellow  out  of  danger,  a  bullet  hit  him 
in  the  spine,  which  caused  paralysis  in  the  lower  limbs. 

He  was  taken  up,  in  a  dying  condition,  in  a  blanket,  by  four 
men,  one  a  member  of  our  regiment,  and  sent,  by  mistake  or 
from  necessity,  to  one  of  Sedgewick's  Hospitals  instead  of 
Hooker's,  and  thus  was  lost  track  of.  Being  informed  that  he 
had  repeatedly  asked  to  see  me,  I  hastened  to  where  he  had 
been  left ;  but  unfortunately  he  had  been  removed  to  some 
other  place  ;  and  although  I  travelled  from  hospital  to  hospi- 
tal I  could  not  find  him.  We  know  that  he  lived  but  about 
forty-eight  hours,  and  expired  with  no  friends  around  him,  in 


JOHN    PARKER    SHELTON.  I ^J 

one  of  the  most  uncomfortable  places  on  earth,  —  a  field  hos- 
pital. You  know  the  rest ;  how  his  body  was  found  and 
brought  home  to  his  bereaved  and  heart-broken  parents,  and 
buried  in  the  beautiful  cemetery  at  Wyoming.  No  better  man, 
no  more  generous  spirit  fell  in  the  war.  He  gave  his  life  freely 
in  the  cause  of  duty.  Why  regret  that  he  died  such  a  glorious 
death  ?  Rather  envy  him  that  he  died  for  his  country  in  the  cause 
for  which  Reno,  and  Mansfield,  and  Wadsworth,  and  Reynolds, 
and  last,  but  not  least,  the  Martyred  Lincoln,  laid  down  their 
lives.  Let  us  hope  that  they  did  not  die  in  vain  ;  that  their 
blood  may  be  sanctified  to  our  country,  and  from  their  ashes 
rise  the  Phoenix,  Liberty  and  Union,  forever  and  ever.  And 
now,  my  dear  sir,  I  thank  you  for  allowing  me  the  privilege  of 
testifying  to  the  noble  life  and  glorious  death  of  my  truest 
friend  and  companion. 

I  have  the  honor  of  being. 

Very  Respectfully, 

Your  Obedient  Servant, 

Ambrose  Dawes. 

As  is  intimated  in  the  above  letter,  no  definite  informa- 
tion concerning  young  Shelton  was  obtained  by  his  sor- 
row-stricken family  for  nearly  three  weeks  after  the  battle. 
As  soon  as  the  sad  tidings  were  telegraphed,  Mr.  Simon 
G.  Cheever,  —  an  intimate  friend  of  the  family,  —  started 
immediately  for  the  battle-field,  using  every  exertion  to 
find  him,  or  learn  aught  of  his  situation ;  issuing  descrip- 
tive posters  and  scattering  them  throughout  the  region, 
and  making  all  possible  inquiries  ;  but  to  no  purpose  ;  no 
trace  of  him  was  learned.  Nothing  was  ascertained  until  a 
letter  was  received  from  Surgeon  S.  G.  Palmer,  of  Gen- 
eral Howard's  Division,  who  wrote  from  head-quarters,  in 
camp  near  Harper's  Ferry,  Oct.  2,  —  the  battle  was  Sept. 
17th,  —  stating  that  young  Shelton  died  of  his  wounds 
at  the  hospital  on  Hoffman's  Farm  ;  —  in  the  rear  of  that 
portion   of   the   battle-field   where  Sumner's    corps,  —  to 


158  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

which  the  Thirteenth  Regiment  belonged,  — was  engaged, 
and  where  about  a  thousand  of  the  wounded  had  been 
brought ;  —  and  that  he  had  been  buried  in  a  pleasant 
spot  beneath  a  walnut  tree,  by  the  side  of  many  others, 
about  an  eighth  of  a  mile  from  the  farm  house  ;  at  the 
same  time  sending  home  what  few  effects  were  found 
upon  his  body.  When  these  facts  were  learned,  his  cousin, 
Mr.  Stephen  W.  Shelton,  and  his  brother-in-law,  Mr. 
George  W.  Copeland,  at  once  proceeded  to  the  battle-field 
and  brought  his  body  home.  He  was  buried  in  Wyoming 
Cemetery  on  the  i6th  of  October,  the  funeral  services 
being  held  in  the  Baptist  Church.  An  appropriate  ser- 
mon was  preached  by  the  pastor.  Rev.  Mr.  Colby,  and  he 
was  assisted  in  the  solemn  ceremonies  by  the  Rev.  Wil- 
liam H.  Munroe,  rector  of  the  Episcopal  Church. 

As  has  been  said,  "Antietam"  was  young  Shelton's 
first  and  only  battle  ;  he  had  not  been  in  even  a  skirmish 
before ;  and  it  is  the  testimony  of  all,  —  officers  and  pri- 
vates,—  that  he  fought  well  and  manfully, — the  bravest 
of  the  brave,  —  on  that  bloody  field.  Would  that  he  had 
not  been  called  to  render  up  his  young  life  so  early  in  the 
great  conflict ! 

"  There  is  a  tear  for  all  that  die, 

A  mourner  o'er  the  humblest  grave  ; 
But  nations  lift  the  funeral  cry 

And  freedom  weeps  above  the  brave. 

"  For  them  is  sorrow's  purest  sigh 
O'er  ocean's  heaving  bosom  sent ; 
For  them  are  tears  in  every  eye  ; 
All  earth  becomes  their  monument. 

"  A  theme  to  crowds  that  knew  them  ncft, 
Lamented  by  admiring  foes, 
Who  would  not  choose  their  glorious  lot, 
Who  would  not  die  the  death  they  chose  ?  " 


OUR     "ROLL    OF    HONOR."  IjCJ 


JONAS    GREEN    BROWN. 

Private  in  Co.  E,  Fiftieth  Massachusetts  Regiment  ;  died 
at  Baton  Rouge,  La.,  June  i8,  1863,  of  disease  con- 
tracted in  the  service. 

Jonas  Green  Brown,  son  of  Joseph  and  Keziah  (Gerry) 
Brown,  was  born  in  Melrose,  June  20,  1824. 

In  August,  1862,  when  the  President  called  for  three 
hundred  thousand  more  troops,  to  serve  for  nine  months. 
Brown  enlisted  in  Captain  Littlefield's  South  Reading 
Company,  Fiftieth  Regiment,  of  which  Carlos  P.  Messer, 
of  Haverhill,  was  Colonel.  The  nucleus  of  the  Fiftieth 
was  the  Seventh  Massachusetts  Militia  Regiment,  and 
it  was  composed  of  companies  from  Essex  and  Middlesex 
Counties.  The  Colonel  and  Lieutenant-Colonel,  —  John 
W,  Locke,  of  South  Reading,  —  were  Captains  in  the 
three  months'  service  when  the  Rebellion  broke  out.  The 
Fiftieth  was  sent  into  the  "  Department  of  the  Gulf,"  and 
assigned  to  the  command  of  Acting  Brigadier-General  N. 
A.  M.  Dudley,  First  Division,  Third  Brigade,  Nineteenth 
Army  Corps,  and  was  encamped  at  Baton  Rouge.  On  the 
14th  of  March  it  accompanied  Major-General  Banks'  expe- 
dition to  the  rear  of  Port  Hudson,  which  was  undertaken 
for  the  purpose  of  allowing  Admiral  Farragut,  with  his 
two  war  steamers,  "Hartford"  and  "Albatross,"  to  pass 
the  batteries.  This  object  was  successfully  accomplished, 
and  the  Fiftieth  returned  to  Baton  Rouge.  It  was  after- 
wards actively  engaged  in  the  "  Siege  of  Port  Hudson," 
and,  after  the  surrender  of  that  stronghold,  was  encamped 
within  its  fortifications  ;  but  previous  to  the  siege,  and 
while  at  Baton  Rouge,  Brown  was  attacked  with  diar- 
rhoea,—  May  17th,  —  and  died  June  i8th,  1863. 


l6o  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

An  extract  from  Captain  Littlefield's  letter  to  the  widow, 
—  indorsed  by  Lieutenants  Warren  and  Draper,  —  testi- 
fies to  the  regard  in  which  Brown  was  held  by  his  officers 
and  fellow-soldiers  : 

We  feel  that  an  all-wise  Providence  has  in  His,  to  us  some- 
times mysterious  dispensations,  seen  fit  to  take  from  our  num- 
ber a  brother  soldier,  whom  we  esteemed  for  his  virtues  and 
respected  for  his  personal  worth  ;  while  from  you  He  has  taken 
a  loved  partner  and  support,  and  from  your  children  a  kind 
father  and  protector.  No  words  can  express  to  you  what  we 
feel  in  our  hearts  for  his  afflicted  family,  and  we  can  only  point 
you  to  Him  who  has  said,  "  Blessed  are  they  that  mourn,  for 
they  shall  be  comforted."  Hoping  that  you  will  bring  your 
wounded,  broken  heart,  with  all  its  burdens  and  sorrows,  to 
Him  who  has  said  He  will  be  the  widow's  God,  and  the  Father 
to  the  fatherless,  I  subscribe  myself, 

Yours  in  affliction, 

S.    F.    LlTTLEFIELD, 

Captain  Co.  E. 


OUR  "roll  of  honor."  161 


BENJAMIN    LYNDE. 

Private  in  Co.  K,  Thirty-Eighth  Massachusetts  Regiment ; 
died  at  Baton  Rouge,  La.,  Aug.  18,  1863,  of  disease  con- 
tracted in  the  service. 

Benjamin  Lynde  was  the  oldest  son  of  George  and  Har- 
riet (Favor)  Lynde,  and  was  born  in  Melrose,  Aug.  14, 

1831. 

.  At  the  time  of  his  enlistment,  August  1862,  he  was 
pursuing  his  occupation  as  a  farmer.  He  was  the  brother 
of  George  Warren  Lynde,  who  enlisted  the  year  before  in 
the  Seventeenth  Regiment. 

The  Thirty-Eighth  Regiment  was  sent  into  the  "  De- 
partment of  the  Gulf,"  where  it  participated  in  the  "  Siege 
of  Port  Hudson,"  and  various  battles  and  marches  in  Lou- 
isiana. In  the  summer  of  1863,  Lynde  was  attacked  with 
the  chronic  diarrhoea,  and  during  the  long  and  wearisome 
march  through  the  "  Teche  "  country,  he  was  hardly  able 
to  keep  his  place  in  the  ranks,  and  was  often  advised  to  go 
to  the  hospital ;  but  he  would  not  listen  to  such  advice, 
and  persevered  much  longer  than  he  ought,  performing 
every  duty  incumbent  upon  a  well  man.  After  a  rest  at 
Alexandria,  he  recovered  somewhat,  but  after  passing 
through  the  "  Siege  of  Port  Hudson,"  he  became  worse, 
and  on  the  i8th  of  August,  while  the  regiment  was  lying 
at  Baton  Rouge,  he  died.  His  comrades  placed  a  head 
board  at  his  grave,  giving  his  name,  age,  residence,  reg- 
iment, company,  and  date  of  death,  and  he  sleeps  in 
a  soldier's  grave  on  the  distant  banks  of  the  "Father 
of  Waters."  He  left  behind  a  wife  to  mourn  his  loss. 
21 


l62  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


GEORGE    JAMES    MORSE. 

Private  in  Co.  A,  Thirteenth  Massachusetts  Regiment ; 
2d  Lieutenant  in  Second  U.  S.  Colored  Troops  ;  ist 
Lieutenant  in  Co.  G,  Fifty-Ninth  Massachusetts  Regi- 
ment;  killed  at  the  "Battle  of  Spottsylvania,"  May  12, 
1864. 

"  With  sword  on  thigh,  '  to  do  or  die,' 
I  march  to  meet  the  foe." 

"  A  nation's  tears  will  greet  the  dead, 
Whose  blood  for  Freedom's  cause  was  shed." 

George  James  Morse  —  brother  of  Sidney  Bradford 
Morse  —  was  the  oldest  son  of  George  H.  and  Sarah 
(Bird)  Morse,  and  was  born  in  New  York,  Dec.  7,  1842. 

He  was  one  of  the  earliest  of  our  citizens  to  enlist.  On 
the  19th  of  April,  —  witii  his  brother  Sidney,  —  he  joined 
the  Fourth  Battalion  of  Rifles,  which  offered  its  services 
to  the  government  for  three  months'  service,  but  being 
refused  for  that  period  of  time,  was  soon  afterwards 
recruited  to  the  Thirteenth  Regiment  of  three  years' 
troops. 

During  the  fall  and  winter  of  1 861-2,  he  experienced 
the  fortunes  of  the  Thirteenth  on  the  upper  waters  of 
the  Potoma?,  engaged  in  many  severe  skirmishes,  hard 
marches  and  arduous  picket  duties  ;  followed  by  the 
campaign  of  General  Pope,  ending  with  the  battles  of 
"Groveton,"  "Second  Bull  Run,"  and  "  Chantilly." 

While  at  Warrenton,  Va.,  before  the  hard  fighting  of 
this  campaign  commenced,  he  says,  in  a  letter  to  his 
mother : 

To-day  ends  our  first  year  in  "  Uncle  Sam's  "  service.  Two 
years  more  at  the  farthest,  and  our  troubles  and  privations  will 


GEORGE    JAMES    MORSE.  163 

be  over,  and  we  can  return  to  our  homes  with  the  proud  con- 
sciousness of  having  done  our  duty,  and  spent  the  best  years  of 
our  lives  in  our  country's  service. 

At  the  "  Second  Bull  Run  Battle  "  he  narrowly  escaped 
with  his  life.  Two  bullets  pierced  his  knapsack  ;  his  can- 
teen and  rifle-sling  were  both  shot  away  ;  and  his  right 
hand  was  shattered  by  a  musket  ball,  on  account  of  which 
he  was  sent  to  the  hospital  at  Philadelphia.  Amputation 
of  his  hand  was  at  first  thought  necessary ;  but  it  was 
saved,  and  he  soon  afterward  received  j:he  appointment  of 
a  clerkship  in  the  hospital  where  he  was  confined.  It  was 
while  here  that  his  much  loved  brother,  Sidney,  died. 
Poignant  was  his  grief  at  the  sad  tidings,  as  will  be  seen 
by  the  following  letter  to  his  mother,  written  with  his  left 
hand : 

Philadelphia,  Sept.  19,  1862. 

My  dear  mother :  —  Last  evening  I  received  your  letter,  an- 
nouncing the  departure  of  my  beloved  brother  to  the  spirit 
world.  May  God  give  us  strength  to  bear  with  our  affliction, 
and  make  us  better  because  of  it.  I  feel  it  deeply,  —  more  so 
than  I  can  express  ;  but  I  find  comfort  in  the  reflection  that  he 
is  in  a  better  world,  where  we  shall  all  meet  again.  He  "  has 
fought  the  good  fight,"  and  died  in  the  service  of  his  country  I 

Although  so  young  in  years,  he  was  old  in  experience,  and 
has  given  up  his  young  life  to  the  best  cause  that  has  engaged 
the  attention  of  our  countrymen  since  the  days  of  the  American 
Revolution.  He  was  beloved  by  all  who  knew  him.  No  one 
knows  the  pain  and  anguish  I  suffer  ;  but  it  is  softened  by  the 
remembrance  that  what  I  could  do  for  him  was  cheerftilly  and 
gladly  done.  He  little  knew  that  many  a  time  I  had  given  him 
the  last  cracker,  and  knew  not  where  to  get  more.  But  I  am 
thankful  it  was  in  my  power  to  do  so.  For  fifteen  months  we 
were  together,  —  and,  so  far  as  I  was  able,  I  feel  that  I  have 


164  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

done  my  duty  by  him.  This  comforts  me  ;  and  now  I  only  look 
forward  to  that  time  when  I  shall  meet  him  in  that  life  where 
there  are  no  wars,  "  nor  rmnors  of  war,"  but  where  all  is  peace 
and  love.  And,  oh,  what  a  joyful  meeting  it  will  be  !  Father, 
mother,  brothers  and  sisters,  all  united  in  one  happy  family,  — 
never  more  to  part ! 

After  recovering  from  this  vi^ounded  hand,  and  having 
been  discharged  from  the  Thirteenth  Regiment,  he  was 
commissioned,  for  valor  displayed  and  meritorious  services 
rendered,  2d  Lieutenant  in  the  Second  United  States  Vol- 
unteers, —  colored  troops,  —  in  the  "  Department  of  the 
Gulf"  Here  he  participated  in  the  sieges  of  "  Vicksburg  " 
and  "  Port  Hudson." 

On  the  5  th  of  July,  during  the  "Siege  of  Port  Hudson," 
where  he  was  forty-three  days  in  the  trenches,  he  was 
wounded  in  the  head  ;  and  before  he  could  be  taken  from 
the  field  he  received  a  sun-stroke.  Soon  afterwards  a 
malarial  fever  seized  upon  him,  and  it  was  the  decision  of 
the  surgeon,  that  the  only  hope  of  saving  his  life  was  for 
him  to  leave  that  region,  and  return  home  ;  and  at  his 
positive  command,  he  tendered  his  resignation,  which  was 
accepted,  and  he  was  sent  North.  He  arrived  at  his  home 
in  Melrose,  in  September,  in  a  very  dangerous  condition  ; 
so  much  so,  that  no  one  that  saw  him  at  the  time  sup- 
posed it  was  possible  for  him  to  live  ;  but  God  had  other 
work  for  him  yet  to  do,  and  with  constant  and  tender  care 
he  began  slowly  to  recover. 

In  less  than  two  months  after  arriving  home,  and  while 
yet  convalescent,  he  learned  that  J.  Parker  Gould,  his  for- 
merly much  esteemed  and  honored  Major  of  the  Thir- 
teenth Regiment,  had  been  commissioned  Colonel  of  the 
Fifty-Ninth  Regiment  Massachusetts  Veteran  Volunteers, 
and  at  once  determined  to  enlist  under  him  ;  and,  rising 


GEORGE    JAMES    MORSE.  165 

from  his  sick  bed,  he  penned  a  note  to  Colonel  Gould, 
soliciting  an  appointment.  Parents  and  friends,  thinking 
his  health  not  sufBciently  established,  endeavored  to  dis- 
suade him  from  entering  the  service  again  so  soon. 

But  his  answer  was  :  "  I  enlisted  at  first,  because  I  felt 
it  to  be  my  duty ;  the  same  cause  still  exists,  and  the  same 
necessity  for  action  ;  and  if  my  life  is  spared,  and  I  am 
needed,  ^fi^'^  years  from  this  time  will  find  me  in  the  field, 
for  while  this  war  lasts,  that  must  bq  my  home." 

He  received  a  commission,  Oct.  22,  1863,  as  2d  Lieu- 
tenant in  Co.  G,  and,  as  soon  as  his  health  permitted,  was 
ordered  on  recruiting  service  for  his  regiment,  and  sent  to 
Woburn,  Stoneham,  and  other  towns.  Dec.  14th,  he 
was  ordered  to  the  camp  at  Readville  ;  and  on  March  4th, 
he  was  promoted  to  ist  Lieutenant. 

During  the  latter  part  of  April,  1864,  the  Fifty-Ninth 
Regiment  was  hurried  off  to  the  seat  of  war,  in  order  to 
join  in  the  final  campaign  under  General  Grant.  It  left 
Readville  April  26th,  and  arrived  in  Virginia  just  in  sea- 
son to  cross  the  Rappahannock  with  the  grand  army,  and 
entered  into  the  "  Battle  of  the  Wilderness,"  without  rest, 
only  ten  days  after  leaving  the  State.  Here  Lieutenant 
Morse  was  wounded  in  the  head  by  a  falling  tree  ;  but  he 
remained  from  his  regiment  only  a  very  short  time, 
returning  with  bandaged  head  to  take  command  of  his 
company,  the  Captain  of  which  had  retired. 

During  the  battles  of  the  succeeding  days  he  was  often 
cautioned  and  warned  from  going  ahead  of  his  men  dur- 
ing action.  His  answer  was  :  "  If  you  want  your  men  to 
go  anywhere,  you  must  lead  them." 

He  seems  to  have  had  a  presentiment  before  leaving 
home,  and  more  especially  before  entering  his  last  battle, 
that  he  should  be  killed,  as  was  manifested  by  messages 


l66  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

left  behind,  and  from  the  fact  that  just  before  the  "  Battle 
of  Spottsylvania,"  or  as  it  is  sometimes  called  the  "  Battle 
of  the  Angle,"  he  took  a  paper  from  his  pocket,  directed 
it  to  his  mother,  and  requested  Sergeant  Bearce,  of  his 
company,  to  see  that  she  received  it,  as  he  felt  that  he 
should  not  survive  the  coming  battle. 

He  led  his  company  into  that  battle,  and  a  ball  pierced 
his  right  side,  shattering  at  the  same  time  a  pistol  in  his 
belt.  Placing  him  upon  a  stretcher,  two  of  his  men  started 
with  him  for  the  hospital  four  miles  in  the  rear.  When 
about  half  way  there,  he  became  faint,  said  that  he  was 
dying,  and  requested  them  to  stop  :  after  leaving  with 
them  messages  for  the  wife,  mother,  and  other  dear  ones 
at  home,  he  said :  "  Tell  the  boys  I  die  like  a  soldier "  ; 
after  which  his  spirit  took  its  flight  to  that  other  and  bet- 
ter world.  And  thus  did  he  die  the  "  proudest  of  all 
deaths,"  as  he  termed  the  death  of  a  comrade  in  arms, 
killed  in  the  battles  before  Richmond  in  1 862 ;  saying  of 
him,  in  a  letter  to  his  mother : 

Poor  fellow!  he  is  at  rest,  with  the  proudest  of  a  names; 
and  he  died  the  proudest  of  all  deaths,  a  soldier  fighting  for 
his  country. 

His  body  was  taken  to  the  hospital,  and  buried  under 
the  direction  of  his  Colonel,  who  was  then  at  the  hospital 
on  account  of  a  sun-stroke,  received  during  the  "  Battle 
of  the  Wilderness  "  ;  and  there,  in  the  blood-stained  soil 
of  Virginia,  lies  one  who  was,  in  the  words  of  Colonel 
Gould,  who  wrote  his  parents  a  few  days  afterwards,  "  a 
very  brave  soldier."  His  remains  were  afterwards  re- 
moved by  the  Government  to  the  National  Cemetery  in 
Fredericksburg,  Va.,  Grave  No.  201,  Division  A,  Sec- 
tion C. 


GEORGE    JAMES    MORSE.  1 67 

Lieutenant  Morse  was  a  member  of  Guiding  Star 
Lodge,  No.  28,  Independent  Order  of  Good  Templars, 
in  Melrose,  and  at  a  meeting,  held  May  26th,  1864,  a 
series  of  resolutions  was  offered  and  adopted,  one  of 
which  was  as  follows  : 

Resolved,  That  we  tender  our  deepest  sympathy  to  his  be- 
reaved wife,  parents  and  relatives,  in  this  our  mutual  affliction, 
and  we  unite  with  them  in  mourning  the  loss  of  a  worthy 
brother,  an  affectionate  son,  husband  and  father ;  and  we  also 
seek  to  participate  with  them  in  the  only  consolation  to  be 
derived  from  the  circumstances  of  his  decease  ;  that  his  life 
having  illustrated  his  unbending  courage,  he  merits  the  martyr's 
crown  by  being  able,  amid  the  allurements  of  wife,  child  and 
home,  to  lay  down  his  life  upon  the  battle-field,  exclaiming  with 
other  dying  heroes : 

"  It  is  sweet  to  die  for  one's  country." 

The  following  incident  is  told  of  Lieutenant  Morse 
while  in  the  trenches  before  "  Port  Hudson " :  One  day 
he  was  ordered  to  have  his  men  build  some  breastworks 
on  a  certain  portion  of  the  line,  very  much  exposed  to  the 
enemy's  fire.  While  overseeing  this  labor,  a  colonel  rode 
out  to  the  spot,  saying  that  he  had  been  told  that  there 
was  a  coward  out  there  ;  the  bullets  flew  by,  and  close  to 
the  colonel,  and  off  he  started  for  a  more  retired  position. 
Very  soon  after  a  major  rode  out,  and  made  the  same 
assertion.  Lieutenant  Morse  said  nothing ;  but  the  flying 
bullets  spoke  for  him,  whistling  such  a  melody  about  the 
major's  ears,  that  he  soon  turned  his  horse,  and  followed 
the  course  of  the  colonel  before  him.  Nothing  more  was 
heard  about  cowardice. 

Remarks  made  by  those  who  go  from  us  and  return 
again  are  seldom  remembered  ;  but  let  them  be  made  by 
one  that  is  taken  from  us,  and  they  are  recalled  and  treas- 


l68  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

ured.  A  remark  made  by  Lieutenant  Morse  to  his 
mother,  just  before  leaving  home  for  the  last  time,  was : 
"  If  I  am  worthy  to  go  and  wear  a  soldier's  uniform,  I  am 
worthy  to  fill  a  soldier's  grave." 

We  close  this  sketch  with  a  stanza  from  a  poem  entitled 
"  The  Dying  Soldier,"  suggested  by  the  death  of  the  two 
brothers,  —  George  and  Sidney,  —  and  written  by  a  resi- 
dent of  Melrose : 

Thou  Southern  clime  !  e'en  thou  must  be 
"  His  Chancel,  Nave  and  Sacristy  " ; 
Death  ended  many  a  bright  career 
Whose  noble  forms  lie  buried  here  ; 
Ye  winds  and  rains,  a  requiem  raise. 
And  chant  it  o'er  these  warriors'  graves. 
They've  ended  here  all  dreams  of  fame, 
But  leave  behind  an  honored  name. 


OUR    "ROLL    OF    HONOR."  iCg 


AUGUSTUS    GREEN. 

Private  in  Co.  G,  Twenty-Second  Massachusetts  Regi- 
ment ;  killed  at  the  "  Battle  of  Bethesda  Church,"  June 
3,  1864. 

"  He  sleeps  where  he  fell,  'mid  the  battle's  roar, 
With  his  comrades  true  and  brave  ; 
And  his  noble  form  we  shall  see  no  more,  — 
It  rests  in  a  hero's  grave." 

Augustus  Green,  the  oldest  son  of  Levi  and  Sarah 
(Davis)  Green,  was  born  in  Maiden  on  the  28th  of  May, 
1841. 

He  enlisted  in  Co.  G,  Twenty-Second  Massachusetts 
Regiment,  in  September  1861.  The  Twenty-Second 
Regiment  was  organized  by  Hon.  Henry  Wilson,  and  left 
the  State  in  October  1861.  It  was  encamped  a  num- 
ber of  months  at  Hall's  Hill,  Va.,  after  which  it  was 
engaged  in  the  battles  of  the  Peninsular  campaign,  under 
General  McClellan,  followed  by  "  Antietam,"  "  Fredericks- 
burg," "  Chancellorsville  "  and  "  Gettysburg,"  and -then  in 
the  final  campaign  under  General  Grant.  For  a  month  pre- 
vious to  the  "  Battle  of  Bethesda  Church,"  it  was  engaged 
in  constant  fights  and  skirmishes.  Up  to  this  time.  Green 
had  followed  the  fortunes  of  his  regiment  without  receiv- 
ing a  wound.  On  the  second  day  of  the  fight  at  this 
place,  —  which  besides  the  church,  a  small,  one-story, 
unpainted  building,  consisted  of  only  three  or  four 
houses,  —  the  Twenty-Second  had  been  in  line  of  battle, 
behind  its  breastworks,  all  day,  and  Green  had  occupied  a 
position  behind  a  large  oak-tree  during  this  and  the  pre- 
vious day.     Just  before  night  he  ventured  to  put  his  head 


JJO  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

out  from  behind  the  tree,  to  take  a  look  at  the  enemy's 
line,  when  a  sharpshooter  shot  him  through  the  forehead, 
and  he  expired  almost  instantly.  He  was  buried  by  his 
comrades  on  the  field  of  battle,  and  there  his  body  now 
rests.  He  is  spoken  of  by  his  comrades  in  arms  as  a  bold 
soldier,  and  one  that  fought  well,  never  shrinking  from  his 
duty. 

"  He  fought  and  died.     A  nameless  grave 
Where  no  sad  willows  o'er  him  wave, 
Or  sculptured  stone  extols  the  brave 

In  chiselled  numbers, 
Was  his.     The  bird's  shrill  symphonies, 
The  restless  murmur  of  the  trees, 
The  sighing  of  the  evening  breeze, 

Mar  not  his  slumbers." 


OUR    "ROLL    OF    HONOR."  I7I 


ALBERT    WATERSTON   CROCKETT. 

Private  in  Co.  K,  Seventeenth  Regiment;   died  in  " An- 
dersonville  Prison,"  Ga.,  Aug.  i,  1864. 

Albert  Waterston  Crockett,  —  brother  of  George  F. 
Crockett,  who  served  in  the  Third  Battery,  —  was  the  son 
of  George  B.  and  AdeHne  D.  Crockett,  and  was  born  in 
Boston,  Jan.  3,  1843. 

At  the  time  of  his  enhstment,  August  1861,  he  was 
employed  in  French's  daguerrotype  and  photographic 
material  establishment  on  Washington  Street,  Boston. 
His  regiment  was  sent  to  and  served  its  time  in  the  "  De- 
partment of  North  Carolina,"  and  Crockett  was  one  of  the 
best  of  soldiers,  performing  his  duties  well  and  faithfully 
up  to  the  time  of  his  captivity,  which  was  at  the  "  Battle 
of  Batchelder's  Creek,"  Feb.  i,  1864.  On  that  day,  at  four 
o'clock,  A.  M.,  the  rebels  made  an  attack  on  the  pickets 
and  camp  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Second  New 
York  Regiment,  near  Batchelder's  Creek,  nine  miles  from 
New  Berne.  Lieutenant-Colonel  John  F.  Fellows,  with 
portions  of  the  five  companies  stationed  near  Fort  Totten 
—  D,  E,  H,  I  and  K,  —  the  other  five  being  in  New 
Berne,  went  to  assist  in  repelling  the  attack.  The 
Seventeenth  arrived  just  as  the  enemy,  numbering  fifteen 
thousand  men,  had  succeeded  in  carrying  the  bridge,  and, 
under  cover  of  woods  and  fog,  it  succeeded  in  flanking 
our  small  force  ;  and,  finding  resistance  useless  against 
such  overwhelming  numbers,  orders  were  given  to  fall  back 
to  the  crossing  of  the  railroad  and  Trent  road,  there  to 
make  another  stand.  At  this  time,  the  remainder  of  the 
Union  force  had  retreated,  leaving  the  Seventeenth  alone 
to  check  the  advance  of  the  enemy.  Soon  after,  Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel Fellows,   together  with  seven    other  officers 


1/2  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

and  fifty-eight  enlisted  men,  were  taken  prisoners.  Three 
were  killed,  and  three  severely  wounded.  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  Fellows  was  one  of  the  Union  officers  who  were 
placed  by  the  rebel  authorities  in  the  city  of  Charleston, 
they  thinking  to  prevent  our  gunboats  and  batteries 
from  shelling  it.  He  was  afterwards  exchanged,  and 
returned  to  his  regiment.  Crockett,  with  others,  was 
taken  first  to  "  Belle  Isle,"  and  thence  to  "  Anderson- 
ville  "  ;  and  while  performing  these  marches  became  very 
foot-sore.  Before  his  imprisonment  he  was  one  of  the 
most  cleanly  and  careful  of  soldiers  as  regarded  his  bodily 
health  ;  but  afterwards,  while  being  slowly  starved  to 
death,  he  became  disheartened,  and  was  careless  of  him- 
self; in  consequence  of  which,  dirt  and  vermin,  ever 
abounding  in  those  Southern  prisons,  aggravated  his 
troubles,  —  and  chronic  diarrhoea  and  scurvy  seizing  upon 
him,  soon  ended  his  life.  He  died  a  very  hard  death, 
suffering  terribly  from  his  disease,  and  for  want  of  proper 
care  and  nourishment.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  he  had 
bartered  everything  he  had  for  food,  excepting  an  old 
pair  of  drawers  and  a  blouse ;  the  latter  given  him  by  his 
fellow  prisoner  and  sufferer,  John  E.  Quinn,  who  first  went 
out  from  our  town,  in  1861,  in  the  Thirty-Second  Regi- 
ment, but  was  discharged  for  disability,  and  afterwards 
re-enlisted  in  the  Seventeenth  Regiment,  and  was  taken 
prisoner  at  the  same  time  with  Crockett,  but  who  survived 
all  the  horrors  of  "  Andersonville "  and  "  Belle  Isle,"  and 
returned  to  tell  the  tale. 

Crockett  was  buried  outside  the  "  prison  pen,"  where  so 
many  thousands  of  our  brave  boys  are  now  sleeping,  and 
the  number  of  his  grave  is  4,483  ;  and  there  he  will  sleep 
with  his  comrades  "  till  a  clarion,  louder  than  that  which 
marshalled  them  to  the  combat,  shall  awake  their  slum- 
bers." 


OUR  "  ROLL  OF  HONOR."  1  73 

JAMES  ROWLAND  HOWARD. 

Private  in  Co.  K,  Thirty-Eighth  Massachusetts  Regi- 
ment ;  died  Aug.  i6,  1864,  of  disease  contracted  in  the 
service. 

"  The  least  in  rank,  but  not  in  honor." 

James  Rowland  Howard,  the  fourth  son  of  James  and 
Mary  (Holt)  Howard,  was  born  in  Melrose,  Feb.  15,  1841. 
His  father  and  grandfather  were  also  natives  of  Melrose, 
or,  as  it  was  then  called.  North  Maiden.  When  the 
Rebellion  broke  out,  James  was  in  Charlestown,  Mass., 
learning  the  harness-maker's  trade,  and  he  expressed  a 
very  strong  desire  to  enlist  in  the  service  of  his  country 
at  once  ;  but,  as  he  was  not  then  of  age,  yielded  to  the 
remonstrances  of  his  widowed  mother. 

In  July  1862,  when  the  renewed  and  earnest  call  came 
for  more  men,  he  could  no  longer  withstand  the  appeal. 
The  spirit  and  desire  to  serve  his  country,  which  actuated 
so  many  thousands  of  our  young  men  at  this  time,  was 
his ;  and  listening  to  the  lines  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes, 

Listen,  young  heroes  !  your  country  is  calling ! 

Time  strikes  the  hour  for  the  brave  and  the  true ! 
Now,  while  the  foremost  are  fighting  and  falling, 

Fill  up  the  ranks  that  have  opened  for  you ! 

and  the  mother  telling  him  to  act  as  he  thought  best,  as  he 
was  then  free,  he  enlisted  during  the  latter  part  of  July, 
with  several  other  Melrose  men,  in  Co.  K,  Thirty-Eighth 
Regiment,  and  was  mustered  in  at  "  Camp  Stanton," 
Lynnfield,  Aug.  12,  1862,  and  left  the  State  Aug.  26th. 
The  Thirty-Eighth  was  ordered  to  join  the  "Banks' 


174  '^^^    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Expedition,"  and  was  sent  into  the  "  Department  of  the 
Gulf,"  where  it  experienced  hard  service  ;  having  been  en- 
gaged, previous  to  the  time  that  Howard  left  it,  in  the  "  Bat- 
tle of  Bisland,"  the  "  Siege  of  Port  Hudson,"  and  many- 
severe  marches  through  the  "  Teche,"  and  other  portions 
of  Louisiana,  one  of  the  marches  being  ninety-six  miles 
in  four  days.  It  was  during  the  "  Siege  of  Port  Hudson," 
and  while  encamped  in  the  woods,  that  his  system  became 
thoroughly  impregnated  with  the  poison  of  the  miasmas 
from  the  swamps  and  bayous  of  the  surrounding  region  ; 
so  much  so  as  to  deprive  him  of  nearly  all  sense  of  feeling 
in  his  flesh. 

Chronic  diarrhoea  seized  upon  him,  very  much  reducing 
his  strength  and  ability  for  duty;  and  yet,  although  so 
reduced,  he  would  not  listen  to  appeals  to  enter  the 
hospital,  saying  that  he  "  entered  the  service  to  work,  not 
to  be  waited  upon."  Upon  being  examined  by  the  sur- 
geon, he  saw  that  it  was  necessary  that  he  should  be  sent 
North  ;  and  in  August  he  was  granted  a  furlough,  but, 
owing  to  detentions,  he  did  not  arrive  home  until  October. 
His  furlough  expiring  in  December,  he  reported  himself, 
with  the  intention  of  returning  to  the  field ;  but  the 
authorities  would  not  receive  him,  and  ordered  his  dis- 
charge, which  was  given  Dec.  5,  1863. 

Disease  had  so  firmly  seated  itself  upon  him,  that  con- 
sumption was  engendered,  and  he  lived  but  a  few  months 
after  his  discharge,  dying  Aug.  16,  1864. 

Howard  is  highly  spoken  of  by  his  companions  in  arms 
as  a  true  soldier,  and  one  that  performed  every  duty  incum- 
bent upon  him.  He  has  gone  to  his  reward.  He  did  not 
die  upon  the  battle-field,  nevertheless  he  gave  his  life  for 
his  country. 


OUR    "  ROLL    OF    HONOR."  1 75 


FRANCIS    PEABODY. 

Private  in  Co.  G,  Twenty-Second  Massachusetts  Regi- 
ment ;  discharged  April  21,  1862,  for  disabihty  ;  re-en- 
hsted  in  Co.  A,  in  the  Seventeenth  Massachusetts 
Regiment,  Aug.  11,  1862;  died  at  New  Berne,  N.  C, 
Oct.  3,  1864,  of  yellow  fever. 

Francis  Peabody,  son  of  Torrey  and  Matilda  (Alley) 
Peabody,  was  born  in  Lynn,  Mass.,  Dec.  31,  1845.  He 
enlisted  in  the  Twenty-Second  Regiment, — raised  by 
Hon.  Henry  Wilson, — and  was  mustered  into  the  service 
Oct.  5,  1 86 1,  but  was  discharged  for  disability,  April  21, 
1862.  In  the  July  following,  when  the  exigency  of  the 
country  demanded  a  large  accession  to  the  ranks  in  the 
field,  young  Peabody,  having  recovered  his  health,  heard 
again  the  cry : 

Our  country  's  calling  !     Go  forth !  go  forth ! 
To  danger  and  glory,  ye  gallants  ! 

and  enlisted  in  Co.  A,  Seventeenth  Massachusetts  Regi- 
ment, being  sworn  into  service,  Aug.  11,  1862.  This 
regiment  experienced  severe  and  honorable  service  in  the 
"  Department  of  North  Carolina."  Peabody  joined  his 
regiment  at  New  Berne,  —  two  other  recruits  from  our 
town,  Edward  W.  Kendall  and  James  S.  Macey,  joining  at 
the  same  time,  —  and  served  his  country  faithfully  and 
with  true  soldierly  bearing,  through  the  various  marches, 
skirmishes  and  battles  incident  to  the  North  Carolina 
campaigns. 

He  again  re-enlisted,  Jan.  4,  1864,  as  a  veteran  volun- 
teer, under  General  Order  No.  191  from  the  War  Depart- 


176  THE    MELROSE     MEMORIAL. 

ment  Soon  after  this  re-enlistment,  in  February  1864,  he 
became  Orderly  for  Brigadier-General  I.  N.  Palmer,  and 
served  in  that  capacity  until  the  time  of  his  death,  Oct.  3, 
1864.  He  died  of  yellow  fever,  at  New  Berne,  during  the 
prevalence  of  that  epidemic.  His  body  now  lies  in  the 
"  Old  Cemetery  "  of  that  city.  The  father  and  brother  of 
Francis  both  served  in  the  army,  and  both  are  now  suffer- 
ing from  the  effects  of  services  then  rendered. 

We  close  this  sketch  with  the  following  testimonial 
from  General  Palmer,  now  Lieutenant-Colonel  2d  U.  S. 
Cavalry : 

Fort  Laramie,  D.  T.,  ) 
Jan.  6,  1868.      j 
Mr.  E.  H.  Goss,  Melrose,  Mass  ^ : 

Dear  Sir :  —  Your  letter  of  the  ist  of  August  only  reached 
me  a  short  time  since,  as  I  was  absent  for  a  few  months  from 
this  Post,  and  my  letters  were  not  forwarded  to  me. 

With  regard  to  the  young  man,  Francis  Peabody,  late  of  the 
Seventeenth  Mass.  Volunteers,  I  can  only  say  that  he  was  on  duty 
at  my  Head-Quarters  at  New  Berne,  North  Carolina,  for  some 
time  before  his  death,  which  occurred  during  the  terrible  season 
of  yellow  fever  in  1864.  He  was  always  a  remarkably  quiet, 
well  behaved,  trustworthy  man.  Although  he  did  not  meet  a 
soldier's  death  on  the  battle-field,  his  name  should  nevertheless 
be  enrolled  with  the  list  of  the  heroes  whose  lives  were  given 
so  freely  in  the  service  of  their  country  during  the  Rebellion. 

I  am,  sir, 

Very  respectfully,  yours, 

I.  N.  Palmer, 
Lieut.-Col.  2d  Cavalry"^  Bt.  Brig.-General. 


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GEORGE    EL^VYN    RICHARDSON. 
[Communicated.] 

The  subject  of  this  notice  was  born  May  11,  1844.  He 
enlisted  in  Co.  K,  with  other  young  men  from  this  town, 
in  the  Thirty-Eighth  Massachusetts  Regiment. 

At  the  early  age  of  eighteen,  he  left  a  pleasant  home 
and  associations  to  endure  the  hardships,  and  meet  the 
dangers  of  a  soldier's  life.  He  went  into  camp  at  Lynn- 
field,  Aug.  15,  1862,  and  left  the  State,  Sept.  24,  for  Balti- 
more, and  remained  there  until  the  loth  of  November, 
when  his  regiment  left  for  New  Orleans ;  and,  after  being 
delayed  at  Fortress  Monroe  and  Ship  Island,  arrived 
safely  at  that  city,  Dec.  31.  For  nearly  two  years  he 
served  under  General  Banks,  in  the  "  Department  of  the 
Gulf,"  sharing  with  his  regiment  the  dangers  and  honors 
of  the  Western  Louisiana  and  Port  Hudson  campaigns. 
He  left  Louisiana  with  his  regiment,  and  joined  the  army 
of  General  Sheridan,  in  the  Valley  of  the  Shenandoah,  in 
the  fall  of  1864. 

At  the  battle  of  "Cedar  Creek  "  he  had  the  misfortune 
to  be  taken  prisoner.  He  was  carried  first  to  Richmond 
and  then  to  Salisbury,  N.  C,  where  he  died  on  the  3d  of 
November  following,  in  the  rebel  prison  of  that  place. 
Thus  he  died  at  the  early  age  of  twenty,  a  martyr  in  the 
cause  of  his  country.  We  have  no  remarkable  incidents 
of  his  soldier  life  to  record,  but  we  have  the  testimony  of 
his  comrades,  that  he  was  a  good  soldier,  always  cheer- 
fully doing  his  duty  ;  and  although  he  fell  thus  early,  he 
will  not  die  in  the  memory  and  love  of  his  friends.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  and 
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lyS  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Sabbath  School,  and  all  that  knew  him  had  confidence  in 
the  purity  of  his  character,  and  cherish  the  hope  of  meet- 
ing him  in  that  home  above,  "where  no  sorrow  shall 
come,"  but  where  the  redeemed  of  the  Lord  shall  enjoy 
an  eternal  heaven  of  joy  on  high.  c.  h.  u. 


OUR    "  ROLL    OF    HONOR."  IJQ 

GEORGE    THOMAS    MARTIN. 

[Communicated.] 

George  Thomas  Martin  was  born  in  Boston,  May  7, 
1840.  In  April,  1846,  his  parents  removed  to  Melrose, 
which  continued  to  be  his  home  until  his  death.  He 
early  sought  to  enter  the  service  of  his  country,  and  was 
commissioned  2d  Lieutenant  of  Co.  K,  Thirty-Eighth 
Massachusetts  Volunteers,  took  an  active  part  in  recruit- 
ing his  company,  and  proceeded  with  his  regiment "  to 
Baltimore.  While  encamped  here,  he  was  wounded  in 
the  ankle  by  the  accidental  discharge  of  a  pistol,  and 
though  he  soon  appeared  to  recover  from  it,  yet  it  is  prob- 
able that  it  was  an  indirect  cause  of  his  death.  The 
Thirty-Eighth  was  assigned  to  General  Banks'  corps,  and 
sailed  soon  after  for  Ship  Island.  From  here  it  pro- 
ceeded to  CarroUton,  La.,  and  thence  took  part  in  the  first 
movement  on  "Port  Hudson."  At  the  "Battle  of  Bis- 
land,"  young  Martin  was  promoted  to  be  ist  Lieutenant. 
In  the  long  marches  of  this  campaign,  and  in  the  "  Siege 
of  Port  Hudson,"  he  bore  a  part.  The  hardships  of  this 
service  induced  a  varicose  vein,  and  he  was  compelled  to 
ask  his  discharge,  which  was  given,  and  he  returned  to 
Melrose.  Some  months'  rest  followed,  when  he  re-en- 
tered the  army,  and  was  commissioned  Senior  ist  Lieu- 
tenant of  Co.  C,  Fourth  Massachusetts  Heavy  Artillery, 
Aug.  16,  1864.  He  was  ordered  to  the  fortifications  near 
Washington.  About  the  ist  of  March,  1865,  he  obtained 
leave  of  absence,  and  entered  the'  Massachusetts  General 
Hospital  at  Boston,  in  order  to  have  the  varicose  vein 
removed.  This  was  in  part  successfully  accomplished  ; 
but  pyaemia  ensued,  causing  his  sudden  death,  March  13, 


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THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


1865.  To  die,  for  him,  however,  "was  gain."  His  dying 
hours  were  full  of  triumphant  joy,  for  he  was  sustained 
by  a  hope  in  Christ,  which  did  not  fail.  He  united  with 
the  Congregational  Church  in  Melrose,  in  June  1858,  and 
had  been  active  in  the  Sabbath  School  and  prayer  meet- 
ings, as  well  as  the  more  social  gatherings  of  the  church. 
He  was  also  an  active  member  of  the  Boston  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association. 

Thus  in  merest  outline  is  the  brief  life  of  one  of  our 
soldiers  sketched!  How  they  loved  him  and  how  they 
miss  him  at  home,  in  the  social  gathering,  the  prayer 
meeting,  the  church,  the  Sabbath  School,  cannqt  here  be 
told  ;  we  know  that  his  merry  laugh,  his  earnest,  cheerful 
tones  are  hushed  and  still  here  forever !  We  know,  too, 
that  we  shall  meet  him  again,  where  every  sound  of 
earthly  strife  is  ended,  and  where  "  there  shall  be  no  more 
death,  neither  sorrow  nor  crying."  c.  n.  c. 


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JOHN    EASTMAN    STILPHEN. 

Private  in  the  Second  Massachusetts  Battery  ;  died  June 
25,  1865,  of  disease  contracted  in  the  service. 

John  Eastman  Stilphen  was  born  in  Dresden,  Maine, 
June  18,  1830.  At  the  breaking  out  of  the  RebelHon, 
and  for  a  few  years  previous,  he  was  Hving  in  Melrose, 
following  his  occupation  as  a  carpenter.  He  enlisted  in 
Nims'  Second  Battery,  which  was  mustered  into  the  ser- 
vice July  31,  1 86 1,  and  sent  to  Baltimore,  Md.  While 
here  it  took  part  in  the  "  Eastern  Shore  Virginia  Expedi- 
tion" ;  and,  in  April  1862,  was  ordered  to  report  to  Major- 
General  B.  F.  Butler,  commanding  "  Department  of  the 
Gulf,"  where  it  saw  much  and  arduous  service ;  taking 
part  in  the  "  Siege  of  Vicksburg,"  "  Battle  of  Baton 
Rouge,"  "  Siege  of  Port  Hudson,"  "  Red  River  Expedi- 
tion," and  other  battles  and  skirmishes,  besides  many  hard 
marchings  and  counter-marchings  throughout  that  Depart- 
ment. Stilphen  was  one  of  the  best  of  soldiers,  perform- 
ing every  duty  incumbent  upon  him,  although  suffering 
from  his  disease  —  hemorrhoids  —  during  all  the  latter 
part  of  the  period  of  his  service  ;  so  much  so,  that  most 
men  under  like  circumstances  would  have  sought  for  and 
obtained  a  discharge ;  but  Stilphen  remained  at  his  post 
until  his  time  was  out ;  and  one  who  served  with  him 
during  these  many  campaigns,  says  that  "  he  was  as  true 
as  steel,  and  never  flinched  when  under  fire."  He  was 
mustered  out  of  the  service,  Aug.  11,  1864,  after  which 
time  he  was  able  to  do  but  little  work,  gradually  failing 
under  the  fatal  hold  of  his  disease.  He  died  June  25, 
1865,  leaving  a  wife  and  three  children  to  mourn  his  loss. 


182  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

and  was  buried  in  Wyoming  Cemetery.  A  handsome 
head-stone  bears,  besides  his  name  and  date  of  death,  the 
following  inscriptions : 

A  Soldier's  Grave, 

HE  HAS  LEFT  US  FOR  HIS   HOME  IN   HEAVEN. 


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GEORGE    WARREN    LYNDE. 

Private  in  Co.  A,  Seventeenth  Massachusetts  Regiment ; 
commissioned  Brevet  ist  Lieutenant,  Dec.  31,  1864; 
died  Jan.  30,  1 866,  of  disease  contracted  in  the  service. 

George  Warren  Lynde  was  the  youngest  son  of  George 
and  Harriet  (Favor)  Lynde  and  was  born  in  Melrose, 
Sept.  2,  1846. 

This  was  another  of  our  boy-soldiers,  he  being  but 
fifteen  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  enlistment.  He 
was  then  attending  school,  and,  on  the  morning  of  the 
23d  of  August,  1 861,  as  had  been  his  custom,  he  drove 
his  father's  cows  to  pasture ;  but  instead  of  returning 
home,  he  kept  on  his  way  to  "  Camp  Schouler,"  at  Lynn- 
field,  and  at  once  enlisted  in  Co.  A,  Seventeenth  Regi- 
ment, giving  his  age  as  eighteen.  For  some  time  previous 
to  this  he  had  been  in  the  habit  of  asking  his  father  and 
mother,  nearly  every  day,  for  their  consent  to  his  entering 
the  service  of  his  country.  A  negative  answer  was  inva- 
riably given,  until  the  day  before  he  started  for  Lynnfield, 
when,  in  answer  to  the  question,  his  father,  half  sportively 
and  half  in  earnest,  said  "  yes."  This  was  enough,  and 
George  took  the  first  opportunity  that  offered  and  started 
off  on  foot  for  the  camp,  eight  miles  distant.  He  was  at 
this  time  captain  of  a  boy's  military  company,  organized 
a  month  or  two  previous,  in  which  he  took  a  great  inter- 
est ;  and  undoubtedly  his  taste  for  military  matters  was 
enhanced  by  his  experience  in  this  company. 

He  left  the  State  with  his  regiment,  which  was  assigned 
to  the  "  Department  of  North  Carolina,"  and  served 
throughout  its  period  of  service  with  much  honor  to  him- 


184  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

self  and  his  country.  He  was  in  the  battles  of  "  Kinston," 
"  Whitehall "  and  "  Goldsborough,"  besides  many  skir- 
mishes and  long  marches  over  the  wretched  and  swampy 
roads,  and  almost  impenetrable  jungles  of  North  Carolina. 

His  comrades  bear  evidence  that  during  his  absence  as 
a  soldier  he  did  not  become  addicted  to  any  of  the  habits 
and  vices  which  cursed  so  many  ;  but  so  straightforward 
and  soldierly  had  been  his  career,  that  his  colonel  fre- 
quently recommended  him  for  promotion. 

While  at  New  Berne,  he  suffered  severely  at  times  with 
the  fever  and  ague,  and  was  also  otherwise  unwell ;  but 
he  remained  at  his  post,  fighting  the  good  fight  well,  and 
performing  every  duty  satisfactorily  until  his  period  of 
service  expired,  when  he  returned  home,  and  was  mustered 
out  on  the  3d  of  August,  1864;  but  he  was  never  well. 
Comsumption  had  marked  him  for  its  victim.  From  the 
day  of  his  muster-out  he  was  never  warm,  suffering  almost 
constantly  from  feeling  cold  until  his  death,  which  took 
place  on  the  30th  of  January,  1866. 

He  was  brevetted  1st  Lieutenant,  Dec.  31,  1864,  for 
gallant  conduct  and  bravery  displayed  at  the  "  Battle  of 
Blount's  Mills,  "when,  with  a  few  others,  he  rushed  out 
from  the  ranks  and  rescued  Belger's  Fifth  Rhode  Island 
Battery,  which  had  become  disabled  and  been  left  in 
the  field  between  the  two  forces,  Captain  Belger  him- 
self having  lost  an  arm,  the  horses  being  killed,  and  the 
battery  abandoned. 


XIV. 

In  Rebel  Prisons. 

"  The  world's  ear  is  full  of  cries  from  the  land  of  rebel  bar- 
barism, where  starvation  walked  at  the  side  of  every  captive, 
and  suffering,  despair  and  death  sat  at  every  prison  door." 


"Andersonville"!  "Belle  Isle"!  "Florence"!  "Mil- 
len " !  Salisbury "  !  Who  that  has  had  friends  or  rela- 
tives starved  in  these  hideous  "prison-pens,"  or  that  has 
read  the  story  of  those  who  have  experienced  and  survived 
the  systematic  cruelty  there  practised  by  the  rebel  author- 
ities,— the  "horrible  and  predetermined  scheme,  contrived 
for  the  purpose  of  depleting  our  armies  and  discouraging 
our  soldiers,"  "  to  destroy  them,  or  to  disable  them  for 
further  military  service,  or  to  compel  our  Government  to  an 
exchange  on  other  than  the  terms  to  which  it  is  in  honor 
and  by  necessity  committed,"  —  does  not  shudder  at  men- 
tion of  these  names,  so  suggestive  are  they  of  brutality, 
sickness,  disease,  starvation,  death,  and  almost  every  con- 
ceivable inhumanity  ?  It  is  impossible  for  any  one  to 
realize  the  amount  of  suffering  and  misery  endured  by 
Union  men  in  these  terrible  places. 

After  hearing  the  recital,  or  reading  the  account  of  one 
who  has  experienced  this  severe  treatment,  suffered  its 
horrors,  and  has  returned  and  told  his  story,  the  wonder 
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is  that  any  one  of  the  many  thousands  that  have  been 
there  incarcerated  ^  ever  survived  the  fearful  ordeal.  But 
there  are  those, — and  we  have  a  few  in  our  midst,  —  who 
lived  through  all  and  returned,  and  have  related  their  suf- 
ferings, giving  the  world  a  picture  of  the  misery  and  tor- 
ture endured  by  our  men  at  the  instigation  of  rebel  leaders, 
whose  names  and  memories  will  ever  be  accursed  and  stig- 
matized, be  they  wandering  up  and  down  the  face  of  the 
earth,  or  be  they  in  their  graves. 

Not  many  of  our  own  citizens  were  destined  to  experi- 
ence these  fearful  sufferings,  although  at  one  time,  Jan.  i, 
1 863,  twenty-five  (25)  Melrose  men,  belonging  to  the  Forty- 
Second  Massachusetts  Regiment,  were  taken  prisoners  at 
Galveston,  Texas  ;  but  this  was  before  the  extreme  cruelty 
and  barbarity  toward  our  men,  —  the  systematic  determi- 
nation to  let  them  perish  from  neglect,  —  was  fully  exer- 
cised,— although  great  suffering  had  then  been  endured  by 
our  men  in  more  eastern  prisons,  —  and  they  were  treated 
comparatively  well,  being  cared  for,  and  as  good  and  as 
much  food  given  them  as  it  was  in  the  rebels'  power  to 
give  ;  and,  after  passing  through  Texas  and  Louisiana  to 
the  Mississippi  River,  by  railroad  and  steamboat,  with  one 
foot-march  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  miles  in  five 
days,  they  were  paroled,  having  been  in  the  rebel  author- 
ities' hands  only  about  two  months. 


*  The  number  of  Union  prisoners  held  in  the  South  during  the  Rebelh'on 
was  126,940.  Of  this  number  22,576  died,  or  were  starved  to  death.  The 
first  Union  prisoner  held  by  the  rebels  was  John  L.  Worden, — who  after- 
terwards  commanded  the  "  Monitor "  in  its  encounter  with  the  "  Merri- 
mack,"—  who  was  kept  in  the  common  jail  at  Montgomery  from  April  15, 
1861,  until  Nov.  II,  and  then  exchanged. 


IN    REBEL    PRISONS.  187 

Besides  these  twenty-five  (25)  men,  the  following  of  our 
citizens  have  been  prisoners  of  war : 

Henry  H.  Jones,  George  W.  Batchelder, 

Archibald  Bogle,  Benjamin  F.  York, 

George  E.  Richardson,  Frederick  W.  Krantz, 

Albert  W.  Crockett,  George  W.  Elliot, 

Wilham  H.  Eastman,  John  E.  Quinn, 

Edmund  W.  Davis,  Henry  Stone. 

Ten  of  these  lived  to  return  to  their  homes.  Richard- 
son and  Crockett  were  starved  to  death  at  "  Salisbury " 
and  "  Andersonville."  Sketches  of  them  have  appeared  on 
a  previous  page.  We  now  give  short  notices  of  the  impris- 
onment of  some  of  those  who  survived  the  fierce  conflict 
with  sickness  and  starvation. 


HENRY    H.    JONES, 

of  Co.  A,  Thirteenth  Massachusetts  Regiment,  was  taken 
prisoner  during  the  first  day's  fighting  of  the  "  Battle  of 
Gettysburg,"  July  i,  1863,  and,  after  suffering  eight 
months  the  horrors  of  rebel  prisons,  was  exchanged,  and 
rejoined  his  regiment  in  May  1864,  just  before  the  "Battle 
of  Cool  Arbor,"  during  the  final  campaign  under  General 
Grant. 

From  Gettysburg  young  Jones  was  taken  to  Staunton, 
Va.,  where,  with  between  four  and  five  thousand  other 
prisoners,  he  remained  six  weeks,  waiting  transportation 
to  Richmond  ;  to  which  place  prisoners  were  finally  car- 
ried on  cattle  cars. 

His  first  night  in  Richmond  was  spent  in  the  famous  — 
and  infamous  —  "  Libby  Prison  "  ;  after  which  he  was  sent 


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THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


to  "Belle   Isle,"   where   commenced  his   sufferings,   and 
where  he  remained  until  exchanged.^ 

Here  he  suffered  the  horrors  and  torments  incident  to 
this  overcrowded,  ill-fed  and  ill-treated  body  of  prisoners. 
There  were  at  times  from  ten  to  twelve  thousand  men 
congregated  in  this  small  space,  —  turned  in  like  so  many 
cattle,  —  to  find  what  resting-place  and  comfort  they  could. 
When  the  least  crowded,  they  could  not  have  had  a  space 
for  each  man  larger  than  three  feet  by  nine.  Here  disease 
and  death  held  high  carnival.  Thousands  without  tent  or 
shelter  of  any  kind ;  through  summer,  fall  and  winter ; 
through  torrid  sun,  rains  and  floods  ;  malarial  fogs  and 
sharp,  cutting  winds ;  covered  with  dirt  and  vermin ; 
"  stripped  of  blankets  and  overcoats,  hatless  often,  shoe- 
less often,  in  ragged  coats  and  rotting  shirts,  they  were 
obliged  to  take  the  weather  as  it  came.  Here  and  there 
a  tent  had  a  fire,  and  the  inmates  gathered  round  it,  but 
the  thousands  outside  shivered  as  the  cold  cut  them  to  the 
bone,  and  huddled  together  for  warmth  and  sympathy  "  ; 
"the  cold  froze  them  because  they  were  hungry,  —  the 


•  Belle  Island  is  a  small  island  in  the  James  River,  opposite  the  Tredegar 
Iron-works,  and  in  full  sight  from  the  Libby  windows.  It  has  pretensions 
enough  to  beauty  at  a  distant  view  to  justify  its  name,  as  part  of  it  is  a  bluff 
covered  with  trees.  But  the  portion  on  which  the  prisoners  are  confined  is 
low,  sandy  and  barren,  without  a  tree  to  cast  a  shadow,  and  poured  upon 
by  the  burning  rays  of  a  Southern  sun.  Here  is  an  enclosure,  variously 
estimated  to  be  from  three  to  six  acres  in  extent,  surrounded  by  an  earthwork 
about  three  feet  high,  with  a  ditch  on  either  side.  On  the  edge  of  the  outer 
ditch,  all  round  the  enclosure,  guards  are  stationed  about  forty  feet  apart, 
and  keep  watch  there  day  and  night.  The  interior  has  something  of  the  look 
of  an  encampment,  a  number  of  Sibley  tents  being  set  in  rows,  with  "  streets" 
between.  These  tents,  rotten,  torn  full  of  holes,  —  poor  shelter  at  any  rate,  — 
accommodated  only  a  small  portion  of  the  number  who  were  confined  within 
these  low  earth  walls.  —  Report  of  Committee  to  U.  S.  Sanitary  Commission. 


IN    REBEL    PRISONS.  189 

hunger  consumed  them  because  they  were  cold."  So 
severe  was  the  treatment,  that,  according  to  the  Confeder- 
ate Surgeon-General's  quarterly  report  for  the  months  of 
January,  February  and  March,  1864,  out  of  nearly  twenty- 
eight  hundred  patients  in  the  hospital,  about  fourteen 
hundred  —  half  the  number  —  died !  This  is  but  a  slight 
picture  of  the  sufferings  experienced  in  this  and  other 
rebel  prisons. 

Jones  was  released  from  this  scene  of  misery  in  April 
1864,  and  after  his  exchange  was  sent  to  Annapolis, 
Md.,  —  then  a  rendezvous  for  exchanged  prisoners,  — 
where  he  remained,  recuperating  his  nearly  exhausted 
system,  for  six  weeks  ;  after  which  he  joined  his  regi- 
ment, went  with  it  through  the  remaining  period  of  its 
service,  returned,  and  was  mustered  out,  Aug.  i,  1864. 
Some  idea  of  the  suffering  he  experienced  can  be  imag- 
ined, not  realized,  when  it  is  stated  that  when  taken 
prisoner  he  weighed  one  hundred  and  fifty-eight  pounds  ; 
when  he  arrived  at  Annapolis  he  weighed  ninety-five 
pounds.  He  still  suffers  from  deafness  and  rheumatism, 
engendered  by  the  cruel  treatment  received  while  in  the 
hands  of  "  our  erring  sisters." 


ARCHIBALD    BOGLE 

Went  into  the  service  in  1861  as  2d  Lieutenant  of  Co. 
I,  Seventeenth  Massachusetts  Regiment,  was  promoted 
1st  Lieutenant,  May  28,  1862,  and  discharged  May  20, 
1863,  to  become  Major  of  the  Thirty-Fifth  U.  S.  Colored 
Troops  in  General  Wild's  Brigade,  then  stationed  in  North 
Carolina.  At  the  "  Battle  of  Olustee,"  in  Florida,  Feb.  20, 
1864,^  he  was  left  on  the  field,  supposed  to  be  dead,  being 
severely  wounded  in  bowels  and  leg.     His  colonel  being 


190  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

absent,  and  the  lieutenant-colonel  being  wounded,  the 
command  of  the  regiment  devolved  upon  Major  Bogle  for 
five  hours,  during  the  hottest  part  of  the  strife.  For  distin- 
guished gallantry  at  this  battle  Major  Bogle  was  published 
in  General  Orders,  and  in  March  following  was  brevetted 
Lieutenant -Colonel.  As  the  "Olustee"  battle-ground 
remained  in  the  possession  of  the  Confederates,  Major  Bogle 
fell  into  their  hands  and  was  taken,  —  notwithstanding  he 
was  an  officer,  and  should  have  been  taken  to  "  Macon  "  or 
some  other  officer's  prison,  —  to  "  Andersonville,"  where 
he  experienced  the  horrors  of  that  "  prison-pen  "  for  nine 
months. 

"Andersonville"  was  an  open  space,  of  twenty-five 
acres,  in  the  shape  of  a  parallelogram,  sloping  on  both 
sides,  without  trees  or  shelter  of  any  kind,  and  with  a 
sandy  soil  over  a  bottom  of  clay.  The  fence  was  made  of 
upright  trunks  of  trees,  about  twenty  feet  high,  near  the 
top  of  which  were  small  platforms,  where  the  guards  were 
stationed.  Twenty  feet  inside  and  parallel  to  the  fence 
was  a  light  railing,  forming  the  "  dead-line,"  beyond  which 
the  projection  of  a  foot  or  finger  was  sure  to  bring  the 
deadly  bullet  of  the  sentinel.  Here  were  crowded  at  times 
as  many  as  twenty-eight  thousand  fellow  -  soldiers,^  —  so 


'  The  "  Battle  of  Olustee,"  or  "  Ocean  Pond  "  was  fought  between  5,000 
Union  Soldiers  under  General  Seymour,  and  10,000  Rebels  under  General 
Finnegan.  Unionists  compelled  to  retreat,  leaving  five  guns,  nearly  six  hun- 
dred stand  of  small  arms,  all  its  battery  horses,  and  about  one  thousand  two 
hundred  killed  and  wounded  on  the  field.  Rebel  loss  nine  hundred  and 
thirty-five  killed  and  wounded. 

*  The  Macon  Journal  and  Messenger  of  the  summer  of  1864  said  that 
there  were  over  27,000  prisoners  in  Andersonville,  and  the  deaths  from  fifty 
to  sixty  per  day.  By  sworn  testimony  before  the  Commissioners  of  the 
"  Sanitary  Committee,"  it  was  proved  that  the  average  number  of  deaths  in 
August,  1864,  was  over  one  hundred  and  thirty  a  day.     Warren  Lee  Goss, 


IN    REBEL    PRISONS.  I9I 

crowded  that  it  was  difficult  to  move  in  any  direction 
without  jostling  or  being  jostled.  We  cannot  spare  the 
space  to  give  details  of  the  condition  of  this  prison  ;  of 
the  utter  disregard  to  all  cleanliness  and  health  of  the  pris- 
oners ;  of  the  perfectly  horrid  state  to  which  the  swampy 
portion  of  the  inside  became.  So  wretched  an  appearance 
did  it  present  that  new  comers  on  reaching  it  would 
exclaim,  "  Is  this  hell  ? "  yet  they  soon  would  become  cal- 
lous, and  enter  unmoved  the  horrible  rottenness. 

From  this  living  death  at  "  Andersonville,"  Major  Bogle 
was  successively  removed  to  Millen,  Savannah,  Charleston, 
and  Columbia,  and  was  finally  paroled  at  Wilmington,  N. 
C,  March  i,  1865.  He  received  the  rank  of  Brevet-Colonel 
March  13,  1865. 

Colonel  Bogle  is  honorably  mentioned  and  interestingly 
spoken  of,  while  at  "  Andersonville,"  in  "  The  Soldier's 
Story  of  his  captivity  at  Andersonville,  Belle  Isle,  and 
other  Rebel  Prisons,"  by  Warren  Lee  Goss  of  the  Second 
Massachusetts  Regiment  of  Heavy  Artillery.  Mr.  Goss 
was  twice  a  prisoner  in  the  hands  of  the  rebels,  wit- 
nessing and  experiencing  the  things  of  which  he  speaks  ; 
and  if  one  desires  to  learn  something  of  the  sufferings 
through  which  our  men  passed,  —  although  he  says  in 
conversation  with  the  writer,  that  were  he  to  tell  the  story 
with  all  its  fiendish  cruelties  and  barbarities,  it  would  not 
be  believed,  —  we  advise  them  to  read  his  volume,  in 
which  he  "proposes  to  relate  the  tale  of  horrors  experi- 

in  his  book,  —  hereafter  referred  to,  —  says  that  "July  and  August  of  this 
year  were  the  most  terrible  experienced  by  the  general  prisoners.  In  one 
day  in  August,  no  less  than  one  hundred  and  sixty  died.  From  the  ist  of 
February  to  the  i6th  of  September,  12,000  Federal  Soldiers,  prisoners  of 
war,  were  carried  from  the  prison  to  the  dead  man's  trench  and  the  felon's 
burial." 


ig2  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

enced  in  these  prisons,  without  exaggeration,"  An  extract 
from  this  sadly  interesting  book,  relating  to  Col.  Bogle,  is 
here  introduced. 

Understanding  that  there  was  a  major  of  colored  troops 
in  prison,  I  hunted  him  up,  and  found  Major  Archibald  Bogle, 
who  was  formerly,  I  believe,  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Seventeenth  Mas- 
sachusetts Infantry.  He  was  captured  at  Olustee,  after  being 
severely  wounded  in  several  places.  He  informed  me  that  he 
formerly  lived  in  Melrose,  Massachusetts.  Since  he  came  into 
the  pen,  he  had  been  refused  all  medical  and  surgical  treatment, 
though  the  prisoners  detailed  as  hospital  stewards  had  covertly 
afforded  him  aid,  and  dressed  his  wounds.  He  wore  his  uniform, 
and  freely  declared  himself  an  officer  of  negro  troops,  —  a  fact 
which  all  officers  of  negroes  were  not  willing  to  own,  by  reason 
of  the  hard  treatment  received  therefor  from  the  rebels.  His 
was  an  instance  of  the  fact  that  a  true  gentleman  remains  the 
same  amidst  the  most  squalid  misery  and  accumulated  misfor- 
tunes. His  intercourse  with  others  was  dignified,  courteous,  and 
urbane,  as  if  in  command  of  his  regiment.  There  were  many 
in  prison,  as  there  always  have  been  in  our  army,  who  professed 
to  despise  negro  troops,  and  have  a  contempt  for  their  officers. 
Major  Bogle  was  at  one  time,  I  was  informed,  compelled  to 
mess  with  his  negroes ;  yet  he  always  maintained  his  gentle- 
manly bearing  and  his  self-respect,  and  commanded  the  respect 
of  others  amid  all  the  accumulated  misery  of  the  "  prison-pen." 
Such  were  my  impressions  of  Major  Bogle. 

Many  loose  statements  have  been  made  in  print  indicating 
that  officers  were  as  common  among  prisoners  at  Andersonville, 
as  enlisted  men.  With  the  exception  of  Major  Bogle,  there  were 
no  commissioned  officers  intentionally  placed  in  Andersonville. 
Others  were  there  by  their  own  act ;  but  the  prison  was  intended 
for  enlisted  men  only.  At  any  time  an  officer  of  white  troops 
could  be  sent  to  Macon,  or  some  other  officers'  prison,  by 
merely  making  a  plain  statement  of  facts  which  looked  plau- 


IN    REBEL    PRISONS.  I93 

sible.  So  much  is  required  to  be  said,  as  there  seems  to  be  a 
great  misunderstanding  in  relation  to  tliis  matter  ;  and  it  is  my 
desire  to  write  such  a  description  of  the  prison  that  those  who 
were  prisoners  at  the  time  with  myself  will  be  the  ones  most 
ready  to  testify  to  the  truth  of  these  pictures,  crudely  drawn 
with  pen  and  ink.  Major  Bogle  at  one  time  was  engaged  in  a 
tunnelling  operation,  in  which  he  plotted  to  release  all  the  pris- 
oners of  the  stockade.  It  failed  through  the  treason  of  some 
one  in  the  secret,  though  it  came  near  being  a  success.  About 
the  time  I  became  acquainted  with  him,  an  extensive  plot  was 
formed  to  break  the  stockade.  Over  two  thousand  men  were 
pledged  to  risk  their  lives  upon  an  effort  to  liberate  the  prison- 
ers of  the  stockade.  Here  seemed  the  choice  before  us,  to  die 
without  an  effort,  amid  all  the  misery  of  the  "  prison-pen,"  or  to 
die  with  our  hands  uplifted  to  strike  one  blow  at  our  enemies, 
before  death,  in  an  attempt  to  liberate  ourselves  and  starving 
comrades.  To  no  reasonable  man  did  there  appear  at  that 
time  to  be  any  hope  for  life  but  in  that  manner.  I  went  into 
the  project,  I  am  willing  to  confess  at  this  day,  having  full  confi- 
dence in  our  ability  to  achieve  the  desired  result,  and  with  a 
feeling  that  it  was  better  to  die  in  such  an  attempt  than  to  die  a 
miserable,  loathsome  death  by  gradual  starvation. 

Acting  in  concert,  we  set  ourselves  at  work,  and  dug  tunnels 
up  to  the  stockade  ;  then  the  tunnel  branched  off  at  right  angles, 
running  parallel  with  the  stockade,  a  shoulder  of  earth  being 
left  as  a  temporary  support,  so  that  when  a  rush  was  made 
against  the  wall  from  the  outside,  it  would  be  thrown  down  in 
the  places  thus  mined.  In  this  manner  three  portions  of  the 
stockade  walls  were  undermined,  —  at  least,  I  have  reason  to 
suppose  so,  although  I  was  engaged  in  digging  and  engineering 
on  but  one  of  them.  Our  plans  were  as  follows  :  One  detach- 
ment of  prisoners  was  to  break  through  on  the  south  side,  near 
the  gate,  and  capture  the  reserve  of  the  guard ;  another  to  break 
through  on  the  north  side,  and,  making  a  circuit  of  the  stockade, 
capture  the  guard  thereon  ;  another  party,  breaking  through  on 

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194  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

the  south-west  side,  near  the  gate,  was  to  capture  the  rebel  artil- 
lery near  headquarters,  and  use  it  according  to  circumstances, 
and  make  such  capture  of  rebel  officers  as  was  possible  ;  while 
prisoners  outside,  under  detail,  were  to  cut  the  telegraph  wires. 
This  achieved,  prisoners  were  to  be  liberated,  rations  equally 
distributed,  the  cars  seized,  ammunition  and  arms  placed  in  the 
hands  of  the  "  organization,"  and  then,  raiding  through  the  rebel 
country,  seize  upon  horses  and  other  modes  of  transportation, 
and  effect  an  escape  to  the  Gulf.  Such  were  our  plans  generally. 
All  was  pronounced  ready  for  the  grand  assault,  and  we  were 
waiting  with  trembling  expectancy,  when  a  proclamation  was 
read  in  prison,  and  posted  in  conspicuous  places,  stating  that 
such  a  plan  was  known  to  be  organized,  and  the  commandant 
of  the  prison  had  full  knowledge  of  all  its  details,  even  to  the 
names  of  those  concerned;  and  that,  if  we  persisted  in  carrying 
it  out,  there  would  be  great  bloodshed,  which  he  wished  to  avert 
Such,  in  substance,  was  a  proclamation  signed  by  Henry  AVirz. 
We  had  been  betrayed  by  one  who,  we  supposed,  from  every 
motive  of  interest,  would  keep  the  secret.  Artillery  was  posted 
at  various  points,  with  men  in  position  to  use  it :  twice  shots 
were  fired  over  the  heads  of  prisoners  in  crowds,  while  white 
flags  were  placed  all  over  the  prison,  as  ranges  for  the  artil- 
lerists. Thus  ended  the  best-conceived  plan  for  liberating  the 
prisoners  en  masse  during  my  imprisonment,  and  proved  the 
assertion  frequently  made  among  the  Kentucky  boys,  that, 
"  Everything  in  the  Confederacy  was  drefful  onskrtain,  and  liable 
to  bust." 


WILLIAM    H.    EASTMAN, 

of  Nims'  Second  Battery  was  taken  prisoner  at  Bayou 
Bceuf,  June  i8,  1863,  while  the  army  was  on  the  march  to 
"  Port  Hudson,"  —  he,  with  others,  having  been  left  behind 
in  charge  of  sick  horses  belonging  to  the  battery.  As  our 
army  moved  forward,  the  rebel  army  followed,  taking  what 


IN    REBEL    PRISONS.  IQ^ 

spoils  and  prisoners  it  could.  Eastman  was  taken  to 
Brashear  City,  where  he  was  held  only  about  a  fortnight, 
and  then  paroled  and  sent  within  the  Union  lines,  where  he 
arrived  just  before  the  fall  of  "  Port  Hudson."  He  was  not 
exchanged  until  the  following  November,  and  during  the 
intermediate  time  he  acted  as  clerk  for  the  Provost  Marshal 
of  one  of  the  Louisiana  Districts.  During  the  short  time 
he  was  in  the  hands  of  the  Rebels,  his  treatment  was  com- 
paratively good,  and  he  escaped  without  suffering  the 
tortures  of  an  "  Andersonville "  or  a  "Salisbury." 


JOHN    L.    CHAMBERS. 

Acting  Master's  Mate,  John  L.  Chambers,  although 
living  in  East  Boston  at  the  time  he  entered  the  service, 
was  a  citizen  of  Melrose  before  the  war,  and  has  been  since 
his  return ;  therefore,  a  short  sketch  of  his  imprisonment 
is  here  introduced,  notwithstanding  his  name  did  not  count 
on  our  quotas.  It  was,  by  far,  the  longest  imprisonment 
suffered  by  any  of  our  citizens,  being  over  two  years  in 
duration. 

Mr.  Chambers  was  appointed  Acting  Master's  Mate, 
August  15,  1862,  and  ordered  on  board  the  gunboat 
"  Albatross."  In  September,  while  at  Ship  Island,  he  was 
transferred  to  the  ship  "  Morning  Light," — Acting  Master 
John  Dillingham  in  command,  —  which  was  on  blockading 
duty  on  the  coast  of  Louisiana  and  Texas.  She  had  an 
armament  of  eight  long  32-pound  guns  and  a  rifled  Butler 
gun,  with  a  crew  of  eighty-four  men,  all  told.  In  No- 
vember, 1862,  she  was  ordered  on  duty  off  Sabine  Pass. 
On  the  morning  of  the  21st  of  January,  1863, — a  consort, 
the  schooner  "Velocity,"  which  carried  two  twelve-pound 
howitzers,  being  also  then  on  duty, — when   four   mileS 


196  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

from  shore,  and  in  a  perfect  calm,  these  vessels  were 
attacked  by  two  river  boats,  which  had  been  converted 
into  cotton-clad  Rebel  gunboats  ;  they  were  the  "  John 
Bell"  which  carried  a  64-pound  rifled  cannon,  and  the 
"  Uncle  Ben,"  with  two  twelve-pounders,  and  with  five 
hundred  sharp-shooters  on  board,  all  under  the  command 
of  Major  O.  M.  Watkins.  Although  the  "Morning  Light" 
had  the  heaviest  armament,  yet  she  failed  to  keep  the 
Rebel  steamers  at  a  distance,  and,  approaching  within  a 
thousand  yards  they  poured  in  a  terrific  and  constant  fire ; 
and  after  a  fight  which  lasted  about  two  hours  and  a  half, 
both  vessels  surrendered,  with  a  loss  of  five  killed  and 
fifteen  wounded.  The  prisoners  were  first  taken  to  Sabine 
City,  thence  to  Houston,  where  they  were  imprisoned  in 
a  large  warehouse.  About  ninety  men  were  confined  in 
the  room  with  Chambers,  which  was  about  one  hundred 
feet  square.  But  the  treatment  here  was  not  severe,  the 
men  being  allowed  two  hours  each  day  for  walking,  under 
a  guard  of  twelve  men. 

About  the  last  of  April,  the  officers  of  the  "  Morning 
Light,"  together  with  those  of  the  "  Harriet  Lane  "  and 
the  "  Forty-Second  Massachusetts  Regiment,"  taken  pris- 
oners at  the  "Battle  of  Galveston,"  Jan.  i,  1863, — twenty- 
two  in  all,  —  were  sent  to  Huntsville,  where  for  three  days, 
by  order  of  the  rebel  authorities,  they  were  confined  in  the 
cells  of  its  State  Prison.  These  cells  were  anything  but 
inviting  places  of  abode,  being  about  eight  feet  by  five, 
and  overrun  with  cockroaches  and  overbrooded  with  mos- 
quitoes. But  by  the  kindness  of  Colonel  Caruthers,  the 
Superintendent,  they  were  released  from  these  close 
quarters  and  given  a  large  upper  room,  which  was  fitted 
up  and  made  comfortable  for  them. 

Here  Chambers  remained  until  the  27th  of  June,  when 
he,  with  the  rest  of  the  officers,  was  ordered  to  "  Camp 


IN    REBEL    PRISONS.  I97 

Groce,"  seventy  miles  southwest  from  Huntsville,  on  the 
"Houston  and  Navasota  Railroad,"  to  which  place  the 
crews  of  the  "  Morning  Light "  and  the  "  Velocity  "  had 
been  previously  sent.  "  Camp  Groce "  was  first  a  camp 
of  instruction  for  the  Rebels,  but  afterwards  was  turned 
into  a  "prison-pen"  or  "corral."  It  consisted  of  four 
stacks  of  barracks  surrounding  an  area,  beyond  which  a 
tract  of  wild  country,  wood,  swamp  and  prairie,  stretched 
for  miles  around.  It  was  under  a  guard  of  from  sixty  to 
eighty  men,  commanded  by  a  fat  officer  known  as  "  Cap- 
tain Buster."  Among  the  officers  now  congregated  at 
"  Camp  Groce  "  were  Colonel  Isaac  S.  Burrill  and  Surgeon 
A.  I,  Cummings  of  the  "  Forty-Second  Massachusetts," 
Colonel  A.  J.  H.  Duganne,^  of  the  "One  Hundred  and 
Seventy-Sixth  New  York,"  and  many  others  taken  at 
Galveston,  Sabine  Pass,  and  other  points  in  Texas.  In 
"  Camp  Groce "  Chambers  remained  until  the  9th  of 
December  following,  and  during  this  time  much  sickness 
had  prevailed,  and  many  deaths  had  taken  place,  one  of 
which  was  that  of  Surgeon  Cummings.  Nov.  20th,  Cham- 
bers and  three  hundred  other  prisoners  were  paroled,  and 
ordered  to  dispose  of  all  superfluous  clothing,  bedding  and 
baggage,  and  prepare  for  a  march  to  Shrevesport,  Louisi- 
ana, about  three  hundred  miles  distant,  for  the  purpose  of 
being  exchanged.  Up  to  this  time  the  Rebel  authorities 
had  transported  for  the  prisoners  all  bedding,  baggage, 
etc.,  and  they  had  received  comfortable  care,  with  good 
beef  and  corn-bread  rations ;  but  now  this  kindness  ceased 
and  from   this   time  the   ill-treatment   and  sufferings   of 


'  Author  of  "  A  History  of  Governments,"  **  Footprints  of  Heroism," 
"  War  in  Europe,"  "  Battle  Ballads,"  "  Twenty  Months  in  the  Department 
of  the  Gulf,"  etc.  . 


198 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Chambers  increased.  This  march  to  Shrevesport  was 
about  three  hundred  and  thirty  miles  in  length,  and 
occupied  twenty-one  days  ;  passing  through  Anderson, 
Huntsville,  Crockett,  Palestine,  Kickapoo,  and  Tyler. 
Near  the  last  town  is  situated  "Camp  Ford,"  now  left 
behind,  but  which  was  yet  destined  to  receive  these  disap- 
pointed prisoners.  When  within  ten  miles  of  Shrevesport, 
and  near  Marshall,  La.,  they  were  ordered  to  halt  and 
encamp  in  the  woods  near  *'  Four  Mile  Spring."  Here 
amid  rain  and  snow  and  very  severe  weather  they  suffered 
great  hardships.  In  the  morning  orders  came  not  to 
exchange,  and  a  "camp"  was  made  near  by  in  an  open 
field,  where,  without  shelter,  they  remained  amid  much 
suffering  and  many  privations  about  three  months.  In 
March  they  were  ordered  back  to  "  Camp  Ford,"  one 
hundred  miles  distant.  This  march  was  accomplished  in 
three  days,  and  with  terrible  suffering,  tracks  of  blood 
being  left  in  many  cases  ;  in  such  condition  were  the  pris- 
oners, and  so  severe  the  treatment  One  sad  incident  of 
this  march  deserves  mentioning.  There  were  two  brothers 
among  the  prisoners,  one  of  whom  was  taken  sick  during 
the  march,  and  died  just  before  bivouacking  for  the  night. 
The  officer  in  command  would  not  allow  the  brother  to 
remain  and  bury  the  body,  but  compelled  him  to  march 
on  with  the  rest ;  but  at  night,  after  they  had  encamped, 
the  guards,  more  humane  than  the  officer,  went  back  and 
buried  him.  Chambers  was  not  in  this  severe  march,  but 
from  the  camp  near  "Four  Mile  Spring"  was  sent,  with 
twenty  other  sick  prisoners,  to  Shrevesport,  where  he 
remained  until  May  28th,  when  he  was  sent  back  to 
"  Camp  Ford,"  together  with  a  hundred  and  fifty  other 
prisoners  that  had  been  gathered  from  different  sources. 
"  Camp  Ford,"  the  "  Andersonville  "  of  Texas,  was  situ- 


IN    REBEL    PRISONS.  I99 

ated  four  miles  from  the  town  of  Tyler,  and  consisted  of  a 
space  of  six  acres,  enclosed  with  a  stockade  of  timbers 
eight  feet  high.  One-sixth  of  this  area  was  allotted  to  the 
officers,  who  dwelt  in  log  huts  and  cabins  of  various  shapes, 
erected  by  themselves  or  purchased  of  former  tenants ;  while 
the  rest  of  the  area  was  occupied  by  the  other  prisoners,  who 
burrowed  under  ground,  or  erected  booths  of  branches, 
and  arranged  every  conceivable  contrivance  for  a  shelter. 
In  April,  during  the  "  Red  River  Expedition,"  under 
General  Banks,  eleven  hundred  and  eighty-six  Federal  pris- 
oners, captured  at  the  "  Battle  of  Mansfield,"  April  8, 
1864,  were  brought  to  "Camp  Ford"  at  one  time.  Many 
others  were  added  at  subsequent  times,  so  that  at  the  time 
Chambers  entered  the  "Camp,"  May  28th,  there  were 
congregated  as  many  as  forty-seven  hundred  prisoners, 
three  hundred  of  whom  were  officers.  The  rations  for 
much  of  the  time  consisted  of  corn  meal,  —  cob  and  all 
ground  up,  and  generally  musty  at  that ;  often  whole  corn, 
without  grinding,  was  given  them.  With  this  kind  of  food, 
insufficient  clothing,  and  such  general  ill-treatment,  it  is 
not  strange  that  there  were  many  deaths.  From  May  i, 
to  Dec.  I,  1864,  there  were  two  hundred  and  thirty-two 
deaths  in  the  "  Camp."  ^  It  was  a  constant  boast  with  the 
guard,  as   they  went   on   duty,  that  they  would  "  shoot  a 


'  A  very  good  picture  of  life  at  "  Camp  Ford,"  as  then  experienced,  is 
given  in  the  following  letter  written  by  the  Confederate  Post-Surgeon. 

Tyler,  Texas,  June  14,  1864. 
Surgeon  J.  M.  Hayden,  Chf.  Med.  Bureau,  T.  M.  D. 

Sir :  —  In  obedience  to  orders,  I  reported  to  the  officer  in  command  of  the  camp  of  Fed- 
eral prisoners  at  this  place  (Colonel  Anderson),  who  immediately  placed  me  on  duty,  as 
surgeon  in  charge.  I  at  once  set  about  examining  the  sanitary  condition  ofthe  stockade,  and 
although  my  mind  was  prepared  by  representations  to  meet  with  abundant  materials  for  dis- 
ease, it  fell  far  short  of  the  reality.    The  enclosed  ground  is  entirely  too  small  for  the  number 


200  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Yank  to-day,"  and  often,  without  any  provocation  what- 
ever, would  a  prisoner  be  shot  down.  Many  were  thus 
killed  during  his  imprisonment.  Notwithstanding  all 
these  disheartening  circumstances,  the  Fourth  of  July, 
1864,  was  duly  celebrated  by  the  reading  of  a  poem,  of 
the  Declaration  of  Independence,  and  the  delivery  of  an 
oration,  interspersed  with  national  airs  by  a  glee  club. 
When  the  weather  permitted,  much  of  the  time  it  being 
very  wet,  evening  meetings  were  held,  conducted  by  the 
chaplains  present.  During  all  this  time  the  hope  of  being 
exchanged  was  constantly  entertained,  fed  by  rumors,  and 
the  fact  that  occasionally  squads  of  two  or  three  hundred 
were  sent  away  for  that  purpose. 

Yankee  ingenuity  developed  itself  wonderfully  at  "  Camp 
Ford,"  and  a  great  variety  of  articles  were  manufactured. 


of  men,  (over  4,500),  and  it  would  be  impossible  to  make  them  healthy  in  such  a  crowded  con- 
dition. The  filth  and  offal  have  been  deposited  in  the  streets  and  between  the  quarters,  from 
which  arises  horrible  stench.  A  great  number  of  the  enlisted  men  have  no  quarter  nor 
shelter,  and  have  to  sleep  out  on  the  ground,  without  even  a  blanket  to  cover  them.  Some  of 
the  sick  are  thus  situated,  and  I  am  making  preparations  to  provide  for  their  wants  and  to 
make  them  comfortable.  We  have  a  hospital  in  course  of  erection,  and  will  need  bedding 
very  much.  The  popular  prejudice  here  is  so  strong  against  them  that  I  can  get  no  facilities 
from  the  people.  I  have  sent  to  you  for  approval  the  requisition  which  I  would  have  sent 
directly  to  the  Medical  Purveyor,  but  I  thought  your  signature  would  be  necessary.  I  am 
ready  to  receive  into  hospital  a  few,  if  we  had  the  articles,  and  they  are  not  to  be  had  here.  No 
regular  register  of  cases  or  deaths  has  been  kept,  up  to  a  recent  period,  but  I  visited  the  grave- 
yard and  counted  twenty-five  graves,  a  much  smaller  number  than  I  was  led  to  believe.  *  *  * 
Very  respectfully. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

F.  W.  MEAGHER. 

The  following  notice  was  also  found  posted  one  morning  : 

Hereafter  any  Federal  prisoner,  being  detected  in  trying  to  make  his  escape  from  the  prison, 
—  either  in  the  act,  or  after  he  has  made  his  escape,  —  will  be  shot  by  the  one  capturing  him. 
By  order  of 

Lieutenant-Colonel  J.  P.  BORDERS, 

ComiTg  Camp  Ford  Prison, 
B.  W.  McEACHAN, 

L  Untenant  and  A  ding  A  djutant. 


IN    REBEL    PRISONS.  201 

With  a  half-dozen  axes  and  hatchets,  three  spades,  a  dull 
saw  and  their  jack-knives,  the  prisoners  contrived  to  mul- 
tiply tools,  and  erect  machinery,  by  means  of  which  musical 
instruments,  rakes,  hoes,  bedsteads,  tables,  chessmen,  pipes, 
and  very  many  other  useful  and  ornamental  articles  were 
manufactured;  and  in  this  manner  many  weary  hours  of 
imprisonment  were  whiled  away.  While  here  Chambers 
contrived  to  make  a  very  fine  and  complete  model  of  the 
ship  "  Morning  Light."  ^ 

A  newspaper  was  also  established,  called  "The  Old 
Flag,"  printed  with  pen  and  pencil,  containing  a  variety 
of  advertisements  and  literary  emanations,  and  circulated 
among  the  prisoners. 

Thus  was  this  long  imprisonment  passed,  amid  many 
privations,  much  suffering,  sickness,  and  death;  but  the 
long  looked  for  and  long  deferred  hour  at  length  arrived. 
On  the  3d  of  March,  with  three  hundred  other  prisoners, 
Chambers  was  marched  to  the  mouth  of  the  Red  River, 
and  on  the  tweaty-sixth  day  of  March,  1865,  having  been 
in  the  hands  of  the  Confederates  two  years,  two  months, 
and  five  days,  he  was  exchanged  and  sent  to  New  Orleans  ; 
thence  up  the  Mississippi  River,  home. 


EDMUND    WALLACE    DAVIS. 

Enlisted  in  Co.  G,  Twenty-Second  Massachusetts  Reg- 
iment, in  1 86 1,  and  was  taken  prisoner  at  the  "Battle  of 
Gaines'  Farm  "  or  "  Gaines'  Mills,"  June  27,  1862.    He  was 


'  Colonel  Duganne  in  his  "Twenty  Months  in  the  Department  of  the 
Gulf,"  while  enumerating  the  characteristics  of  some  of  his  co-prisoners,  thus 
refers  to  Chambers  :  "  The  ingenious  Chambers  whose  model  of  the  '  Morn- 
ing Light '  was  a  trophy  of  Yankee  naval  architecture." 
26 


202  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

first  carried  to  "  Libby  Prison,"  and  afterwards  to  "  Belle 
Isle,"  but  was  held  only  about  six  weeks,  when  he  was 
exchanged  and  sent  into  the  union  lines ;  consequently 
his  sufferings,  as  a  prisoner,  were  of  short  duration  ;  but 
the  heart  disease,  with  which  he  had  been  suffering,  was 
aggravated  by  the  treatment  received  while  in  the  hands 
of  the  Rebels,  and  he  was  discharged  from  the  service  soon 
after  his  exchange.     He  died  at  Melrose,  July  22,  1864. 

Davis  was  one  of  five  brothers  that  served  in  the  Union 
army.  Loami  G.  was  in  the  Thirty-Third  and  Third 
Heavy  Artillery  Regiments ;  John  E.  and  James  L.  were 
in  the  Forty-Second  Regiment ;  Charles  L.  in  the  Eighth 
Maine  Regiment ;  and  Edmund  W.  in  the  Twenty-Second 
Massachusetts  Regiment.  We  had  no  other  instance 
where  one  family  furnished  five  persons  for  the  army,  but 
we  had  two  other  families  that  furnished  four ;  Martin  and 
York,  as  follows  :  George  T.  Martin  was  in  the  Thirty- 
Eighth  and  Fourth  Heavy  Artillery  Regiments  ;  William 
H.  in  the  Thirty-Eighth  Regiment ;  Charles  H.  in  the 
Fourth  Heavy  Artillery ;  and  Jeremiah,  Jr.,  in  the  Navy. 
Benjamin  F.  York  was  in  the  Fifty-Sixth  Regiment  ; 
Josiah  R.  and  William  B.  were  in  the  Forty-Second  ;  and 
Arthur,  Jr.,  was  in  the  Twelfth  New  Hampshire  Regi- 
ment. 

Several  families  furnished  three  members  for  difierent 
periods  of  service,  viz:  Shelton,  Macey,  Emerson, — a 
father  and  two  sons  ;  Peabody, — a  father  and  two  sons  ; 
Wyman  and  McLaughlin.  Many  families  gave  us  two 
members ;  viz :  Anderson,  Barry,  Barron,  Crockett, 
Dawes,  Fuller,  Grover,  Howard,  Ireson,  Lynde ;  two 
families  two  each,  —  Morse,  Marshall,  —  father  and  son, 
—  McAllister,  Nichols,  and  Quinn. 


IN    REBEL    PRISONS.  2O3 

FREDERICK    W.    KRANTZ. 

When  the  Rebellion  broke  out  Krantz  was  in  the  U.  S. 
Navy,  having  enlisted  in  1859  for  three  years;  he  was  dis- 
charged at  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  Sept.  24,  1861.  In  July, 
1862,  he  enlisted  in  Co.  C,  Thirty-Third  Regiment.  After 
the  "  Battle  of  Gettysburg  "  was  fought  and  won,  while  our 
army  was  pursuing  General  Lee,  he  became  foot-sore, 
and,  with  others,  was  left  behind  the  army  to  follow  as 
best  he  could,  when  he  was  taken  prisoner  by  Stuart's 
Cavalry.  He  was  carried  to  a  tobacco  warehouse  about 
two  miles  from  Piankatank  Point,  between  the  Potomac 
and  Rappahannock  Rivers.  Here  he  suffered  the  usual 
hard  treatment  allotted  our  prisoners,  being  ^ick  a  long 
while  with  fever  and  ague  ;  but,  after  an  imprisonment  of 
seven  months,  he  made  his  escape  in  the  night  and  reached 
Washington,  Feb.  3,  1864.  He  returned  to  his  home  in 
Melrose,  and,  after  recruiting  his  health  during  a  furlough  of 
two  months,  was  returned  to  his  regiment,  then  encamped 
in  Lookout  Valley,  P.ast  Tennessee.  After  taking  part  in 
nearly  all  the  engagements  of  the  "  great  march  to  the 
sea,"  under  General  Sherman,  he  was  again  taken  prisoner 
by  Rebel  cavalry,  while  on  a  foraging  expedition.  He  was 
taken  to  the  prison  at  Salisbury,  N.  C,  where  he  remained 
suffering  the  horrors  and  tortures  of  that  place,  until  just 
before  the  fall  of  Richmond,  when  he  was  removed  to 
"  Libby  Prison,"  and  after  a  delay  of  two  weeks  was  paroled 
and  sent  to  City  Point,  where  he  arrived,  once  more  under 
the  old  flag,  on  the  day  Richmond  was  evacuated.  He 
was  sent  to  Annapolis,  and  soon  after  discharged  and  sent 
home. 

The  following  extract  from  the  "  Congregationalist  and 
Recorder"  gives  a  slight  idea  of  some  of  the  experiences 
passed  through  by  our  prisoners  while  at  "  Andersonville." 


204  "^^^    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

It  is  from  the  description  of  a  visit  made  in  April,  1868, 
by  the  Rev.  C.  L.  Woodworth,  who  was  Chaplain  of  the 
Twenty-Seventh  Massachusetts  Regiment,  two  hundred 
and  fifty  members  of  which  had  been  inmates  of  this 
"  prison-pen." 

After  speaking  of  the  insufficiency  of  water  allowed  our 
prisoners,  received  from  a  small  brook  running  through 
the  enclosure,  which  in  summer  "  could  have  been  little 
more  than  a  mere  drizzle  from  the  swamps  around,"  and 
that  within  bow-shot  was  "  a  creek  of  beautiful,  unfailing 
water,  twenty  feet  wide,  and  three  feet  deep,  which  would 
have  made  prison-life  almost  a  joy,"  of  the  forests  of  wood 
near  at  hand,  and  only  one  stick  a  day  allowed  for  a  squad 
of  fifty  men,  and  of  the  evidences  of  the  many  attempts  at 
"  mining  out "  made  by  our  men,  he  says : 

One  can  give  no  account  of  his  feelings  as  he  wanders  over 
these  accursed  acres,  and  sees  everywhere  traces  of  the  unfortu- 
nate occupants.  The  debris  of  cabins,  chimneys,  fire-places, 
ovens,  holes  in  the  hill-side,  are  among  the  painful  evidences  of 
the  battle  they  fought  for  comfort  and  life.  The  side-hill  on 
the  north,  is  burrowed  all  over,  and  reminds  one  of  a  sand 
bank  honey-combed  with  swallows'  holes.  Some  of  these  under- 
ground excavations  were  quite  spacious,  and  might  hold  a  score, 
while  others  are  so  small  that  not  more  than  one  could  have 
occupied  them  at  a  time.  The  tops  of  the  larger  ones  have 
mostly  fallen  in,  softened  by  the  rain.  Indeed,  it  was  no  uncom- 
mon thing  during  a  rainy  night  for  some  one  or  more  of  them 
to  cave  in  and  bury  the  sleepers.  Quite  a  number  of  lives,  it  is 
said,  were  lost  in  this  way. 

But  that  which  most  forcibly  reminds  one  of  the  terrible  strug- 
gle which  the  men  had  for  simple  comfort,  is  the  wells  which 
they  dug  in  search  of  water.  Forty  of  these  are  still  in  exist- 
ence, and  some  of  them  as  fresh  as  if  dug  but  yesterday.    In  a 


ANDERSONVILLE    PRISON.  205 

number  of  instances  they  went  down  eighty  feet,  but  in  nearly 
every  case  failed  to  find  the  coveted  treasure.  One  marvels 
how  they  could  have  dug  them  without  tools  of  any  sort,  using 
simply  their  fingers,  and  bringing  up  the  dirt  in  the  pockets  of 
their  blouses,  or  in  their  caps,  or  handkerchiefs.  Had  I  not 
seen  the  wells,  and  waited  some  moments  for  a  stone,  that  I 
dropped  in  to  strike  the  bottom,  I  could  not  have  believed  it. 
How  consuming  the  thirst  which  could  impel  to  such  labors  ! 
Until  near  the  close  of  the  war  there  was  only  one  structure 
inside  the  stockade,  —  that  was  a  small,  rough  building  used  by 
the  Quartermaster,  —  where  were  weighed,  and  from  whence 
were  issued  the  scanty  rations  that  our  men  fought  over  like 
famished  dogs.  I  saw  the  platform,  and  a  part  of  the  scales  on 
which  this  starvartion  diet  was  balanced  to  the  nicety  of  death. 

It  was  after  the  attention  of  the  civilized  world  had  been 
directed  to  the  barbarity  practised  on  our  prisoners,  that  the 
confederate  government  put  up  within  the  stockade,  both  at  the 
northern  and  at  the  southern  end,  five  large  sheds  of  a  hundred 
feet  in  length,  simply  covered  at  the  top ;  the  sides  all  open 
like  a  depot  wood-house.  These  were  better  than  nothing,  but 
in  storm  and  cold,  were  a  poor  protection  for  weak,  starving 
men,  and  miserably  inadequate  for  all. 

South  of  the  main  stockade  a  hundred  and  fifty  yards  or  so, 
was  the  hospital  stockade.  Within  this  were  twenty-two  of 
these  long,  low  sheds,  from  which  fifteen  thousand  martyred 
souls  went  up  to  God.  The  day  I  visited  this  ground  was  hazy 
and  sultry,  and  I  imagined  the  air  was  stifling  from  the  boding 
horrors  which  every  object  suggested.  Could  I  forget  that  only 
a  litde  time  ago  these  sheds  were  filled  with  sick,  pale,  famished, 
wasted  men,  that  every  hour  out  of  the  twenty-four,  the  dead- 
cart  carried,  at  least,  two,  oft  times  six,  lifeless  bodies  to  the 
trenches ! 

Seven  forts  and  earthworks  commanded  the  prison,  and  made 
all  thought  of  resistance  hopeless.  Escape,  therefore,  was  a 
thing  which   depended   entirely   on  the   cunning  and  craft   of 


206  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

the  individual  man.  Mining  out  was  a  favorite  method  ;  a 
few  scaled  the  stockade.  Some  ran  the  guard,  and  others, 
who  had  passes  to  cut  wood,  bring  water,  or  bury  a  comrade, 
forgot  to  return.  But  this  constant  attempt  to  outwit,  and  elude 
their  keepers,  was  met  on  their  part  with  a  weapon  of  warfare 
known  only  in  the  South,  and  up  to  this  time  practised  only  on 
negroes,  and  escaped  Yankee  prisoners.  I  refer,  of  course,  to 
hounds  that  were  kept  to  track  and  hunt  down  the  fugitives. 
There  were  three  block-houses,  just  west  of  the  stockade,  where 
the  hunters  and  the  hounds  were  quartered.  Only  one  of  the 
houses  is  now  standing,  and  this  will  soon  disappear,  for  every 
relic  hunter  is  sure  to  carry  a  piece  of  it  away.  The  stories  told 
by  the  colored  people  of  the  horrid  exploits  of  the  hounds,  — 
human  and  inhuman,  —  in  running  down  our  boys,  is  enough 
to  make  one's  flesh  creep.  I  have  no  heart  to  put  a  single  one 
of  them  on  paper. 

We  cannot  better  close  these  notices  of  the  sufferings 
of  our  heroes  in  these  wretched  spots,  than  to  give  an 
extract  from  a  letter  by  a  correspondent  of  the  "  American 
Missionary,"  dated  Atlanta,  Ga.,  May  13,  1867,  showing, 
as  it  does,  the  great  change  in  the  use  to  which  "Ander- 
sonville  "  is  now  consecrated : 

Did  they  ever  imagine,  those  rebel  officers,  who  used  our 
poor  boys  to  erect  those  buildings  —  buildings  put  up  to  enable 
them  to  hold  thirty  thousand  prisoners  in  unheard  of  tortures  — 
did  they  ever  imagine  to  what  use  those  buildings  were  to  be 
applied,  and  so  soon  ?  Did  they  dream  that  the  wail  of  the 
captive  would  scarcely  be  hushed,  and  the  last  victim  laid  to 
sleep  his  last  sleep  in  those  awful  witness-bearing  trenches, 
before  two  angels  of  mercy  should  take  their  abode  there, 
transforming  that  hell  upon  earth  into  a  little  earthly  heaven  ? 
Yes,  "  Andersonville  "  has  been  cleansed  and  sanctified  ;  and, 
thank  God,  by  the   purity,  the   presence,   the  labor,  and   the 


ANDERSONVILLE    PRISON.  2O7 

love  of  woman.  Where  the  rebel  soldier's  jeer  and  oath 
used  to  be  heard,  now  daily  ascends  the  sweet  sound  of 
prayer  and  praise.  For  the  howl  of  the  hungry  hound,  eager 
to  chase  the  perishing  Union  fugitive,  you  may  now  hear  the 
sweet  voices  of  the  children  blending  in  song.  The  jailer  has 
fled,  haunted  by  the  memory  of  his  crimes  (for  Wirz  was  not  alone 
in  the  charge),  and  two  gentle  women  have  taken  possession  of 
his  dwelling ;  the  persecuted  slave  has  found  a  shelter  in  the  huts 
erected  by  his  persecutors,  and  the  Freedman's  corn  is  now 
growing  in  the  empty  stockade. 

One  of  the  ladies  referred  to  above,  says  in  the  same 
paper : 

You  would  scarcely  know  the  place  were  you  to  come  here 
now.  The  trees  are  heavy  with  the  wealth  of  foliage,  the  air 
resonant  with  the  sweet  song  of  birds,  and  odorous  with  the 
breath  of  flowers.  But  the  stockade  with  its  silent  tale  of  suf- 
fering, and  the  cemeterj',  with  its  quiet  sleepers,  are  still  here. 
"  Andersonville  "  will  ever  be  to  me  a  memory  of  suffering,  a 
home  of  dead  heroes,  a  planting  of  freedom's  seed.  I  am  glad  to 
have  been  here,  glad  of  the  record  we  shall  leave  —  I  only  wish 
it  were  more  glorious  with  fruit ;  but  one  soweth,  and  another 
reapeth.  I  am  content  with  sowing,  and  with  the  evidence  of 
life  in  the  seed.  It  is  germinating  ;  already  the  mellowed  soil 
is  breaking  from  the  struggles  of  the  embryo  which  wants  light 
and  air.  We  have  but  to  lay  our  ear  to  the  earth,  to  hear  the 
swelling  and  the  struggling  of  the  new  life  beneath.  A  few 
more  rains  of  love,  a  few  more  dews  of  mercy,  a  few  more 
suns  of  grace,  and  the  blade  will  appear ;  after  that,  the  going 
on  from  strength  to  strength,  till  the  harvest  time  shall  come. 
Oh  !  it  has  been  good  to  work  here.  I  thank  God  for  it,  and 
the  rich  experience  it  has  brought ! 


XV. 

i86s. 


Close  of  the  Rebellion. 

Oh,  beautiful !  my  country !  ours  once  more  ! 
Smoothing  thy  gold  of  war-dishevelled  hair 
O'er  such  sweet  brows  as  never  others  wore, 

And  letting  thy  set  lips 

Freed  from  wrath's  pale  eclipse, 
The  rosy  edges  of  their  smile  lay  bare. 
What  words  divine  of  lover  or  of  poet 
Could  tell  our  love  and  make  thee  know  it, 
Among  the  nations  bright  beyond  compare  ? 

What  were  our  lives  without  thee  ? 

What  all  our  lives  to  save  thee  ? 

We  reck  not  what  we  gave  thee ; 

We  will  not  dare  to  doubt  thee. 
But  ask  whatever  else,  and  we  will  dare ! 

yames  Russell  Lowell. 

In  the  "Life  of  Abraham  Lincoln,"  by  Dr.  J.  G.  Hol- 
land, —  "  Timothy  Titcomb,"  —  occurs  the  following  vivid 
passage  relative  to  the  fall  of  Richmond  : 

The  day  on  which  Richmond  fell  will  long  be  remembered 
by  the  people  of  America,  in  both  sections  of  the  country.  Whpn 
the  news  was  made  public  on  Monday,  —  April  3,  1865,  —  the 
whole  North  was  thrown  into  a  frenzy  of  joyous  excitement. 
Every  bell  on  every  public  building,  from  the  Atlantic  to  the 
Pacific  was  rung  for  hours.     Cannon  answered  to  cannon,  from 


CLOSE    OF    THE    REBELLION.  2O9 

mountain  to  mountain,  and  from  valley  to  valley.  Men  grasped 
one  another's  hands  in  the  streets,  and  wept,  or  embraced  each 
other  in  the  stress  of  their  joyous  enthusiasm.  Public  meetings 
were  called,  at  which  the  deeds  of  the  gallant  heroes  who  had 
won  the  decisive  victories  were  praised  and  cheered,  and  the 
public  exultation  found  expression  in  speech  and  music.  Noth- 
ing like  it  was  ever  seen  upon  the  continent.  The  war  was 
over.  Richmond,  that  had  so  long  defied  the  national  authority 
and  resisted  the  national  arms,  was  ours.  The  rebel  President 
and  his  associates  were  fugitives.  Lee's  army  was  running 
away,  and  Grant  was  pursuing  them.  The  sun  of  peace  had 
fairly  risen.  The  incubus  of  war  that  had  pressed  upon  the 
nation's  heart  for  four  long,  weary  years,  was  lifted ;  and  the 
nation  sprang  to  its  feet,  with  all  possible  demonstrations  of 
joyous  exultation. 

Melrose  joined  with  much  enthusiasm  in  these  demon- 
strations over  the  joyful  termination  of  this  great  struggle. 
Upon  the  receipt  of  the  telegram, 

Richmond  and  Petersburg  are  ours.  A  third  part  of  Lee's 
army  is  destroyed.     For  the  remainder  there  is  no  escape, 

there  was  great  rejoicing ;  the  bells  were  rung,  flags  hoisted, 
houses  illuminated  in  the  evening,  and  a  display  of  fire- 
works ;  and  a  general  congratulation  over  this  long  wished 
for  event.  A  concert,  given  on  the  same  evening  by  the 
"  Melrose  Musical  Association,"  under  the  direction  of  Mr. 
Andrew  J.  Morse,  was  closed  with  patriotic  airs,  and  cheers 
for  General  Grant  and  his  noble  army. 

This  great  and  universal  joy  was  augmented  six  days 
later,  April  9th,  by  the  news  of  General  Lee's  surrender 
to  General  Grant,  at  "  Appomattox  Court  House." 

The  culmination  was  now  reached,  and  rebellion  crushed. 
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210  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Henceforth  Peace  was  to  take  the  place  of  War.    The  time 
had  come  when 

"  They  shall  beat  their  swords  into  ploughshares,  and  their 
spears  into  pruning  hooks." 

But  this  great  gladness  was  very  soon  turned  into  the 
deepest  mourning  by  the  death  of  our  beloved  president, 
Abraham  Lincoln,  who  died  only  six  days  after  Lee's  sur- 
render,—  April  15,  1865, — by  the  hand  of  an  assassin. 

Governor  Andrew  communicated  this  sad  intelligence 
to  the  Massachusetts  Legislature,  April  1 7th,  commencing 
his  address  as  follows : 

In  the  midst  of  the  exultations  of  repeated  victory,  in  the 
midst  of  the  highest  hopes,  of  the  most  auspicious  omens,  in 
the  hour  of  universal  joy,  the  nation  passed  at  once,  by  an  in- 
scrutable and  mysterious  Providence,  into  the  Valley  of  the 
Shadow  of  Death.  Assembled  while  the  cloud  is  yet  thick  upon 
our  eyes,  and  the  hearts  of  men  are  oppressed  by  the  sense  of  a 
strange  dismay,  it  has  become  my  mournful  duty  to  record,  by 
formal  and  official  announcement  to  the  Legislative  department 
of  the  Commonwealth,  this  calamitous  and  distressing  event. 

The  day  of  the  funeral,  Wednesday,  April  19th,  was  a 
day  of  general  mourning  throughout  the  land.  Business 
was  entirely  suspended  and  funeral  ceremonies  were  every- 
where held.  Churches  were  thrown  open,  and  music, 
prayer,  and  eulogy  testified  to  the  nation's  great  loss. 

In  Melrose,  a  united  service  was  held  in  the  Congre- 
gational Church,  which  was  appropriately  draped  in 
mourning.  This  was  a  deeply  interesting  occasion,  and 
the  exercises  were  as  follows  : 

I. 

Chant,  — "Thy  Will  Be  Done." 


FUNERAL    CEREMONIES.  211 

II. 

Invocation  and  Reading  of  the  Scriptures. 

BY   REV.   WILLIAM   S.    BARNES. 
III. 

Hymn. 

See,  gracious  God  !  before  thy  throne 

Thy  mourning  people  bend  ; 
'T  is  on  thy  sovereign  grace  alone 

Our  humble  hopes  depend. 

Dark,  frowning  judgments  from  thy  hand    . 

Thy  dreadful  power  display  ; 
Yet  mercy  spares  this  guilty  land, 

And  still  we  live  to  pray. 

How  changed,  alas !  are  truths  divine, 

For  error,  guilt  and  shame  ! 
What  impious  numbers,  bold  in  sin, 

Disgrace  the  Christian  name  ! 

Oh,  turn  us,  turn  us,  mighty  Lord, 

By  thy  resistless  grace  ; 
Then  shall  our  hearts  obey  thy  word, 

And  humbly  seek  thy  face. 

IV. 
Prayer. 

BY   REV.    HENRY   BAKER. 

V. 
Hymn. 

God  moves  in  a  mysterious  way, 

His  wonders  to  perform  ; 
He  plants  his  footsteps  in  the  sea, 

And  rides  upon  the,  storm. 


2  I  2  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Deep  in  unfathomable  mines 

Of  never-failing  skill, 
He  treasures  up  his  bright  designs, 
•     And  works  his  sovereign  will. 

Ye  fearful  saints,  fresh  courage  take : 
The  clouds  ye  so  much  dread 

Are  big  with  mercy,  and  shall  break 
In  blessings  on  your  head. 

Judge  not  the  Lord  by  feeble  sense, 
But  trust  Him  for  his  grace  : 

Behind  a  frowning  providence 
He  hides  a  smiling  face. 

His  purposes  will  ripen  fast. 
Unfolding  every  hour ; 

The  bud  may  have  a  bitter  taste. 
But  sweet  will  be  the  flower. 

Blind  unbelief  is  sure  to  err, 
And  scan  his  work  in  vain ; 

God  is  his  own  interpreter. 
And  He  will  make  it  plain. 

VI. 

Address. 

BY  REV.  WILLIAM  S,   BARNES. 

VII. 
Address. 

BY  REV.   HENRY  BAKER. 
VIII. 

Anthem. 
"rest,  spirit,  rest." 


FUNERAL    CEREMONIES.  2I3 

IX. 

Address. 

BY   REV.    HENRy  A.   STEVENS. 

X. 

Prayer. 

BY   REV.   WILLIAM   S.    BARNES. 

XI. 

Hymn. 

My  country,  'tis  of  thee, 
Sweet  land  of  Liberty, 

Of  thee  I  sing  : 
Land  where  my  fathers  died, 
Land  of  the  pilgrim's  pride, 
From  every  mountain  side 

Let  freedom  ring ! 

My  native  country,  thee  — 
Land  of  the  noble  free  — 

Thy  name  I  love  : 
I  love  thy  rocks  and  rills, 
Thy  woods  and  templed  hills  ; 
My  heart  with  rapture  thrills 

Like  that  above. 

Let  Music  swell  the  breeze, 
And  ring  from  all  the  trees 

Sweet  freedom's  song ! 
Let  mortal  tongues  awake  ; 
Let  all  that  breathe  partake ; 
Let  rocks  their  silence  break  — 

The  sound  prolong  1 


214  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Our  father's  God  !  to  Thee, 
Author  of  liberty, 

To  Thee  we  sing : 
Long  may  our'land  be  bright 
With  freedom's  holy  light ; 
Protect  us  by  thy  might, 

Great  God,  our  King ! 

XII. 

Benediction. 

BY   REV.    HENRY  A.    STEVENS. 

Owing  to  the  length  of  the  programme,  the  remarks  by 
Messrs.  Barnes  and  Stevens  were  quite  short ;  the  principal 
address  being  made  by  Rev.  Mr.  Baker,  of  which  the  fol- 
lowing is  an  abstract. 

I  would  rather  have  been  a  silent  listener  amid  the  univer- 
sal sadness  of  this  hour!  The  stillness  of  these  draped  walls, 
the  sombre  flags  of  a  thousand  cities  at  half-mast,  and  their 
countless  avenues  hung  with  symbols  of  deepest  woe ;  the 
silent  tread  of  the  millions  of  mourners,  and  the  universal  sadness 
unspeakable,  welling  up  from  a  nation's  heart,  all  speak  louder 
than  words  the  sad  consciousness  of  our  terrible  bereavement. 
But  not  only  our  own  native  land,  but  if  angels  are  interested 
in  the  affairs  of  earth,  and  carry  tidings  from  continent  to  conti- 
nent, and  sphere  to  sphere,  the  great  heart  of  humanity  every- 
where bleeds  to-day !  The  down-trodden  of  every  land  will  shed 
a  tear,  for  a  great,  a  good  man  ;  humanity's  universal  friend  has 
rudely  fallen.  A  man  peculiarly  honest,  for  he  had  earned  the 
enviable  name  of  "  Honest  Abe."  A  man  paternal,  for  we 
loved  to  call  him  Father  Abraham.  A  thoughtful,  sober,  frank, 
sincere,  sagacious,  far-seeing,  common  people^s  man,  that  you  and 
I  had  learned  to  love. 

A  man  of  deep  religious  faith,  that  dared  to  trust  in  God.     A 


REV.    HENRY    BAKER's    ADDRESS.  21 5 

man  that  recognized  the  providence  of  God.  Leaving  Springfield 
for  the  great  duties  which  the  nation  had  imposed  upon  him, 
how  fully  he  seemed  to  realize  his  great  responsibilities,  as 
bidding  them  an  affectionate  farewell,  he  says,  "  pray  for  me  ! " 
And  in  our  sad,  dark  struggles,  with  his  terse,  affectionate  proc- 
lamations, he  summons  the  afflicted  millions  to  fastings,  and 
then  in  triumph  to  thanksgivings  and  to  praise. 

Amid  all  his  public  trials  and  anxieties^  affliction  hovered 
around  his  own  home,  and  his  darling  child  is  borne  to  the  grave. 
His  soul  listened  to  the  voice  divine  that  thus  seemed  to  speak 
from  eternity.  On  the  fields  of  Gettysburg,  weeping  over  the 
slaughtered  thousands  of  our  fallen  heroes,  and  the  deep 
depravity  of  human  hearts,  he  there  resolved  personally  to  give 
himself  to  Christ.    From  that  hour  he  was  a  practical  Christian. 

The  first  hours  of  every  day,  while  others  slept,  he  read  God's 
word  and  bowed  in  prayer.  This  was  his  custom.  Who  of  us 
so  noble  and  so  pure.  Who  can  offset  so  many  virtues,  to  their 
faults  so  few  ? 

"  Who  of  us  have  borne  our  faculties  so  meek,  as  he  who  has 
been  so  clear  in  his  great  office,  that  his  virtues  will  plead  like 
angels  trumpet-tongued,  against  the  deep  damnation  of  his 
taking-off  ? "  Oh  how  foul  that  malignant  spirit  that  struck  at 
our  nation's  heart !  Do  we  not  now  see  it,  "  the  sum  of  all 
villanies  "  ?  Ay,  how  base  tliis  monster  evil !  How  like  the 
hydrophobia  it  infects  widi  its  own  vile  spirit  its  own  victims. 
How  it  butchered  at  Zazarcnce,  and  starved  at  Andersonville  and 
Libby.  Look  upon  the  already  idiotic  starvelings  of  "  Anderson 
Stockade,"  those  brave  patriots,  and  hear  the  coward  tyrants 
declare  to  them,  '•'  If  we  can't  whip  you,  we  can  starve  you  to 
death ! "  One  million  subscription  is  opened  in  Alabama  to 
procure  assassination  !  and  soon  the  world  is  startled  at  this 
culminating  dastarly  act !  "  Then  you,  and  /,  all  of  us  fell 
down  while  bloody  treason  flourished  over  us." 

But  there  is  a  Providence  still  in  all  this.  Truth  and  error 
are  ever  antagonistic,  and  there  will  always  be  friction  along  the 


2l6  THE    MELROSE     MEMORIAL. 

line  of  their  contact.  Diplomacy  had  ceased  ;  the  clash  of  arms 
resounded.  Slavery  defeated,  again  appeals  to  Diplomacy  ;  and 
here,  dear  friends,  is  our  present  danger. 

A  sickly,  morbid  philanthropy  is  abroad  —  that  dare  not 
recognize  treason  and  rebellion  a  crime ;  a  growing  leniency 
that  may  yet  prove  the  country's  doom ;  the  soothing  style  in 
which  we  meet  the  defeated,  but  still  defiant  rebel. 

But  the  voices  of  a  half  million  patriots  are  to-day  crying  from 
the  ground  for  vengeance !  "  Carleton  "  writes,  the  very  day  of  the 
assassination,  "  We  now  witness  an  impatient  longing  for  '  peace 
at  any  price,'  which  impresses  many  statesmen  with  the  con- 
viction that  Lee's  capitulation  is  but  the  commencement,  rather 
than  the  end  of  our  national  troubles."  Let  us  not  forget  the 
"frozen  serpent,  the  peasant  in  pity  put  into  his  bosom." 

God  hates  slavery  I  And  its  death-warrant  has  been  read, 
and  it  must  fall,  if  the  nation  goes  down  with  it.  Its  appointed 
hour  has  come  !  Could  any  act  of  this  monster  have  so  roused 
the  nation  to  its  danger  !  God  permits  Booth  for  a  season  to 
escape,  only  that  the  nation  may  for  a  season  rouse  from  her 
slumber,  and  heed  her  danger.  Oh  how  this  nation  is  aroused 
to-day !  How  the  malignant  hiss  of  the  copperhead  has  died 
away !  Shall  it  ever  be  heard  again  ?  Not  if  the  nation  feels  as 
she  does  to-day !  We  can't  hear  a  word  disloyal  to-day.  The 
stars  and  stripes  must  be  flung  to  the  breeze  from  every  doubt- 
ful door !  Our  mothers  dare  to  vindicate  the  death  of  patriot 
sons,  for  there  v^  freedom  in  the  very  air  to-day ! 

A  new  era  dawns  upon  us.  We  are  ceasing  to  be  a  pro- 
slavery  nation.  God  sees  a  new  administration  necessary,  and 
does  not  palsy  the  loose  arm  that  strikes  down  the  nation's 
head. 

How  strangely  was  our  beloved  Lincoln  nominated ;  how 
providentially  elected.  How  like  an  angel  spirit  he  led  the 
cause  of  freedom  onward,  until  the  land  was  free.  He  has  done 
his  work,  and  so  well.  That  blow  that  struck  off  the  executive 
head  of  a  pro-slavery  government,  finished  that  dynasty  and 
inaugurated  a  world-wide  freedom. 


FUNERAL    OF    PRESIDENT    LINCOLN.  21 7 

God  now  would  use  a  severer  scourge  to  secure  the  future  of 
free  governments. 

How  significant  the  assassin's  cry,  "  Sic  semper  tyrannis  "  !  It 
was  meet  that  it  should  thus  destroy  itself.  Now  let  us  live  for 
freedom  and  for  God. 

As  it  was  in  Melrose,  so  was  it  in  every  city,  town,  and 
village  throughout  the  loyal  portion  of  our  land.  Eulogies, 
sermons  and  addresses  were  delivered  before  the  assembled 
multitudes.  Resolutions  of  grief,  respect  and  admiration 
were  offered  by  various  corporated  associations,  and 
at  the  meetings  of  educational,  literary,  and  historical 
societies,  not  only  in  our  own,  but  in  foreign  lands.^ 

"  As  there  was  never  such  a  funeral  as  this,  so  there 
was  never  such  a  procession.  That  which  moved  from 
the  White  House,  on  the  nineteenth,  was  but  the  begin- 
ning of  a  pageant  that  displayed  its  marvellous  numbers 
and  its  every-varying  forms,  through  country,  and  village, 
and  city,  winding  across  the  territories  of  vast  States, 
along  a  track  of  more  than  fifteen  hundred  miles.  The 
President  was  to  be  borne  back  to  his  own  people,  and 
to  be  buried  among  the  scenes  of  his  early  life.  He  had 
told  the  people  of  Springfield,  Illinois,  when  he  parted  with 


'  The  Appendix  to  the  "  Diplomatic  Correspondence  of  1865,"  issued  by 
the  United  States  Government,  contained  the  resolutions,  proceedings,  arti- 
cles, and  correspondence  of  1,139  different  bodies  and  individuals,  mostly  in 
foreign  countries;  and  Mi.  Charles  H.  Hart,  of  Philadelphia,  has  made 
a  very  complete  collection  of  the  printed  sermons,  addresses,  and  eulo- 
gies called  forth  by  this  sad  event.  It  numbers  431.  He  is  soon  to  issue 
a  work  descriptive  of  the  same,  with  the  following  title  :  "  Bibliographia 
Lincolniana.  A  Catalogue  of  the  Publications  occasioned  by  the  Death  of 
Abraham  Lincoln,  Sixteenth  President  of  the  United  States  of  America. 
With  an  Introduction  and  Notes.  By  Charles  H.  Hart,  Historiographer  cf 
the  Numismatic  and  Antiquarian  Society  of  Philadelphia,  etc.,  etc." 

28 


21 8  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

them,  more  than  four  years  before,  that  he  owed  to  them 
all  he  was.  It  was  but  right  that  they  should  have  his 
dust." 

As  we  commenced  this  notice  of  the  downfall  of  the 
Rebellion  by  a  quotation  from  Dr.  Holland's  "  Life  of 
Abraham  Lincoln,"  so  will  we  end  it  with  the  closing 
words  of  the  same : 

Humble  child  of  the  back-woods, — boatman,  axe-man,  hired 
laborer,  clerk,  surveyor,  captain,  legislator,  lawyer,  debater, 
orator,  politician,  statesman.  President,  savior  of  the  republic, 
emancipator  of  a  race,  true  Christian,  true  man,  — we  receive  thy 
life  and  its  immeasurably  great  results,  as  the  choicest  gifts 
a  mortal  has  ever  bestowed  upon  us ;  grateful  to  thee  for  thy 
truth  to  thyself,  to  us,  and  to  God  ;  and  grateful  to  that  ministry 
of  Providence  and  grace  which  endowed  thee  so  richly,  and 
bestowed  thee  upon  the  nation  and  mankind. 


XVI. 


Miscellaneous. 

COST   OF    THE   WAR,    FOR    BOUNTIES    AND    OTHER    NECESSARY 
EXPENSES. 

The  amount  of  indebtedness  of  the  town  of  Melrose,  on 
the  1st  of  March,  1861,  was  twenty-nine  thousand  two 
hundred  and  sixty  dollars  (1^29,260.00).  The  amount  of 
indebtedness  April  i,  1865,  was  seventy-five  thousand, 
five  hundred  and  thirty-two  dollars  (^75,532.00) ;  ^  showing 
an  increase  for  the  four  years  of  forty-six  thousand,  two 
hundred  and  seventy-two  dollars  (;^46,272,oo).  Of  this 
amount  thirty-eight  thousand,  five  hundred  ninety-two 
dollars  and  seventy  cents  ($38,592.70)  was  incurred  on 
account  of  the  Rebellion.^ 

A  large  amount  of  money  was  raised  and  expended 
during  these  four  years,  by  the  citizens,  which  of  course 
does  not  appear  in  the  reports  of  the  financial  affairs  of 
the  town.  In  1862,  when  our  quota  was  thirty-seven  men, 
and  a  certain  number  of  citizens  agreed  to  go  intq  the 
service  themselves,  or  furnish  a  man  in  their  place,  sums 
ranging  from  twenty  to  fifty  dollars  each,  were  paid  to  the 
substitutes  then  obtained.  The  amount  thus  paid  must 
have  been  at  least  eight  hundred  dollars  ($800.00).     The 


*  The  amount  of  Town  Debt,  March  i,  1868,  was  $60,578.11 ;  a  decrease 
in  three  years  of  $12,675.20. 

•  In  addition  to  this,  $700.00  Bounty  money  was  paid  during  the  years 
1866-67,  as  per  votes  of  the  town. 


220  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

same  year  a  subscription  fund  was  raised  by  Mr  William 
F.  Poole,  for  the  benefit  of  the  families  of  those  then  in 
the  service,  which  amounted  to  three  hundred  and  forty 
dollars  (^340.00). 

In  1863,  four  of  the  drafted  citizens  paid  commutation 
money,  three  hundred  dollars  (1^300.00)  each,  amounting 
to  twelve  hundred  dollars  (^1,200.00) ;  and  three  furnished 
substitutes,  costing  nine  hundred  dollars  (^900.00),  besides 
some  additional  expenses  in  putting  the  men  into  the 
service. 

In  1864,  three  of  our  citizens  furnished  "Representative 
Recruits "  costing  three  hundred  and  seventy-five  dol- 
lars (^375.00)  ;  and  four  furnished  "  Substitutes  for  En- 
rolled Men,"  costing  about  twenty-five  hundred  dollars 
(^2,500.00) ;  and  a  fund  of  five  thousand  six  hundred  and 
fifty  dollars  ($5,650.00)  was  raised  by  the  citizens,  by  sub- 
scription, in  aid  of  the  recruiting  service. 

During  the  war,  at  least  six  hundred  dollars  ($600,00) 
in  money  —  besides  many  boxes  of  hospital  and  other 
stores,  —  were  contributed  to  the  "  Christian  "  and  "  Sani- 
tary Commissions,"  by  the  different  churches :  making  a 
total  amount  of  money,  paid  by  the  citizens,  of  over  twelve 
thousand  dollars  ($12,000.00).  Beside  this  amount  many 
sums  were  given  to  individual  soldiers,  by  their  friends,  at 
different  times,  of  which  it  is  impossible  to  make  explicit 
mention. 

LIST    OF    TOWN    OFFICERS. 

The  town  of  Melrose  was  set  off  from  the  northern  part 
of  the  town  of  Maiden  and  incorporated  by  Legislative 
Act,  May  3,  1850.  It  was  enlarged  by  the  annexation  of 
a  small  portion  of  the  eastern  part  of  the  town  of  Stone- 
ham,  March  15th,  1853.     It  contains  two  thousand  nine 


LIST    OF    TOWN    OFFICERS.  221 

hundred  and  twenty-one  (2,921)  square  acres  of  territory, 
and  is  bounded  as  follows :  —  on  the  north  by  Wakefield, 
—  formerly  South  Reading,  —  on  the  east  by  Saugus,  on 
the  south  by  Maiden,  and  on  the  west  by  Medford  and 
Stoneham.  When  incorporated  it  had  a  population  of 
twelve  hundred  and  sixty  (1,260),  which  had  increased  to 
twenty-eight  hundred  and  sixty-five  (2,865)  ^^  the  time  of 
the  last  census,  1865. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  its  Selectmen,  Town  Clerks, 
Treasurers,  Collectors,  Assessors,  School  Committee,  and 
Representatives  to  the  General  Court,  from  the  date  of  its 
incorporation  until  the  present  time : 


222  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

TOWN    OFFICERS. 


YEAR.       SELECTMEN.         TOWN  CLERK.        TREASURER.        COLLECTOR. 

f  Jeremiah  Martin. 

1850.  }  Isaac  Emerson,  Jr.   Elbridge  Green.       Isaac  Emerson.  Isaac  Emerson. 
'  Artemas  Barrett. 

/  Jeremiah  Martin. 

1851.  <  ShubaelL.  Taylor.   Jonathan  Cochran.  Isaac  Emerson.  Shubael  L.  Taylor. 
'  Jonathan  Cochran. 

/  Jeremiah  Martin. 

1852.  }  Franklin  Taylor.       Jonathan  Cochran.  Isaac  Emerson.  Freeman  Upham. 
(  Rufus  H.  Flint. 

/  Franklin  Taylor. 

1853.  }  Ephraim  Avery.        Francis  Bugbee.       Isaac  Emerson.  Asa  Slocum. 
(  Henry  Sprague. 

/  George  Emerson. 

1854.  }  John  Blake.  Francis  Bugbee,      John  Blake.        Wm.  N.Wilkinson. 
'  James  M.  Thresher. 

/►John  Blake. 

1855.  <  Tames  M.  Thresher.  Francis  Bugbee.       Caleb  Howard.  Caleb  Howard. 
(  James  .M  Beckett. 

/  George  M.  Fletcher. 

1856.  \  Wm.  E.  Fuller.         Francis  Bugbee.       Caleb  Howard.  Caleb  Howard. 
(■  James  M.  Beckett. 

r  George  M.  Fletcher. 

1857.  }  Wm.  E.  Fuller.         Francis  Bugbee.      Caleb  Howard.     Caleb  Howard. 
'  Benj.  F.Abbott.M.D. 

f  Elbridge  Gardner. 

1858.  <  Ephraim  Avery.        Chas.  H.  Shepard.  Caleb  Howard.     Caleb  Howard. 
'  Nelson  Cochran. 

/  Elbridge  Gardner. 

1859.  <  Wm.  J.  Farnsworth.EdwardR.  Knights.  Caleb  Howard.  Stephen  J.  Phinney. 
'  George  M.  Fletcher. 

/  George  Emerson. 
i860.  <  Nelson  Cochran.       Edward  R.  Knights.  Caleb  Howard.  George  Newhall. 
'  Wm.  J.  Farnsworth. 

1  The  new  Representative  system  went  into  operation  this  year.    The  towns,  Stoneham,  South 
Reading,  —  now  Wakefield,  —  and    Melrose,  forming  the    Twentieth  Middlesex  Representative 


LIST    OF    TOWN    OFFICERS. 


223 


TOWN    OFFICERS. 


ASSESSORS. 


SCHOOL    COMMITTEE. 


Representatives 

TO 

General  court. 


Aaron  Green.  Henry  A.  Norris. 

Shubael  L.  Taylor.    Caleb  Howard. 
Wm.  J.  Farnsworth.  Elbridge  Green. 

Shubael  L.  Taylor.    Erastus  O.  Phinney,  M.D. 

Aaron  Green.  Rev.  Wilson  R.  Parsons.  John  T.  Paine. 

Ruftis  H.  Flint         Rev.  Josiah  W.  Talbot 

Aaron  Green.  Rev.  Wilson  R.  Rarsons. 

German  S.  Phippen.  Erastus  O.  Phinney,  M.D.  Daniel  W.  Gooch. 

Henry  Sprague.        George  E.  White. 

Rev.  John  C.Ingalls.Daniel  W.  Gooch. 

German  S.  Phippen.  George  P.  Burnham.  Samuel  O.  Dearborn. 

Joshua  Upham.        John  Shelton. 

Jonathan  Cochran.   Elbridge  Green. 

Germans.  Phippen.  Erastus  O.  Phinney,  M.D.  Voted  not  to  send. 

Asa  Upham.  Charles  H.  Simonds. 

Geo.  M.  Fletcher.     Erastus  O.  Phinney,  M.D. 
Jonathan  Cochran.    Rev.  Alex'r.  J.  Sessions.    John  Vial. 
Edward  P.  Nevens.  Rev.  J.  A.  Coolidge. 

Jonathan  Cochran.    Rev.  Alex'r.  J.  Sessions. 

Benjamin  Linikin.     Walter  Littlefield.  Voted  not  to  send. 

Geo.  M.  Fletcher.      Caleb  Howard. 


Jonathan  Cochran. 
Geo.  M.  Fletcher. 
Joseph  Holbrook. 

Jonathan  Cochran. 
Joseph  Holbrook. 
Henry  Robinson. 

Jonathan  Cochran. 
Henry  Robinson. 
Wm.  E.  Fuller. 

Jonathan  Cochran. 
Wm.  B.  Burgess. 
Geo.  M.  Fletcher. 


Guy  Lamkin. 

»  Walter  Littlefield,  Jr. 

J.  Sullivan  Eaton,  South  Reading. 


Rev.  Alex'r.  J.  Sessions. 
Rev.  Wm.  H.  Munroe. 
Rev.  J.  S.  Dennis. 

Moses  Parker,  M.D. 
Rev.  Wm.  H.  Munroe. 
George  N.  Noyes. 

Erastus  O.  Phinney,  M.D.  J.  Parker  Gould,  Stoneham. 
Rev.  Wm.  H.  Munroe.      Loren  L.  Fuller. 
Rev.  James  Cooper. 

Erastus  O.  Phinney,  M.D.  John  Wiley,  2d,  South  Reading. 
Aaron  Green.  Lyman  Dyke,  Stoneham. 

Elbridge  Gardner. 


District,  sending  two  Representatives  to  the  General  Court  each  year.    Changed   to  the  Twenty- 
Third  District  in  1866. 


224  ^^^    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


YEAR,        SELECTMEN.  TOWN  CLERK.         TREASURER.         COLLECTOR. 

Wm.  B.  Burgess. 

1861.  )  George  M.  Fletcher.EdwardR.  Knights.  Caleb  Howard.  George  Newhall. 
*  (  Col.  John  H.  Clark. 

/  Col.  John  H.  Clark. 

1862.  ^  Wm.  B.  Burgess.      Edward  R.  Knights.  Caleb  Howard.  George  Newhall. 
V  George  M.  Fletcher. 

/  Col.  John  H.  Clark. 

1863.  }  Wm.  B.  Burgess.       Edward  R.  Knigljts.  Caleb  Howard.  George  Newhall. 
'  George  M.  Fletcher. 

/  Col.  John  H.  Clark. 

1864.  <  Wm.  B.  Burgess.      Edward  R.  Knights.  Caleb  Howard.     John  Smith. 
'  Wm.  E.  Fuller. 

Wingate  P.  Sargent. 
1865.-^  George  M.  Fletcher.  Stinson  Sewall.       David  Fairbanks.  David  Fairbanks. 
Isaac  Emerson,  Jr. 

r 

I  Wingate  P.  Sargent. 
1866.-^  George  M.  Fletcher.  Stinson  Sewall.       David  Fairbanks.  David  Fairbanks. 
Isaac  Emerson,  Jr. 

L 

r  Wingate  P.  Sargent. 
1867.'!  Isaac  Emerson,  Jr.      Stinson  Sewall.       David  Fairbanks.  Aaron  Green. 
I  George  M.  Fletcher. 

/  Wingate  P.  Sargent. 
1868.  ]  James  C.  Currier.      Stinson  Sewall.       David  Fairbanks. Geo. F.  Boar dman. 
'  George  Newhall. 


LIST    OF    TOWN    OFFICERS 


225 


ASSESSORS.  SCHOOL   COMMITTEE. 

Erastus  O.  Phinney,  M.D. 
Luther  Robinson. 
Charles  H.  Isburgh. 

Luther  Robinson. 
Charles  H.  Isburgh. 
Henry  E.  Trowbridge. 

Charles  H.  Isburgh. 
George  A.  Mansfield. 


Edward  P.  Nevens. 
Joseph  R.  Simonds. 
Theo.  B.  Merrick. 

Edward  P.  Nevens. 
Geo.  M.  Fletcher. 
Stephen  Shelton. 

Edward  P.  Nevens. 
Geo.  M.  Fletcher. 
Stephen  Shelton. 

Edward  P.  Nevens.  Joseph  B.  Sanford. 
Stephen  Shelton.      Rev.  John  B.  Richmond. 
Geo.  M.  Fletcher.     Thomas  W.  Chadbourne. 


Representatives 

TO 

General  Court. 
Artemas  Barrett. 
"William  H.  Pierce,  South  Reading. 


Captain  John  H.  Dyke,  Stonehatn. 
William  H.  Atwell,  So.  Reading. 

Isaac  Emerson,  Jr. 

Leander  F.  Lynde,  Stomham. 

Daniel  Allen,  South  Reading. 
Isaac  Emerson,  Jr. 


George  Emerson. 

Joel  Snow. 

Geo.  M.  Fletcher. 


George  Emerson. 

Joel  Snow. 

Geo.  M.  Fletcher. 


Joel  Snow. 

Geo.  M.  Fletcher. 

George  Emerson. 


Hon.  Samuel  E.  Sewall. 
Thomas  W.  Chadbourne. 
Kev.  John  B.  Richmond. 
George  N.  Noyes. 
George  A.  Mansfield. 
George  Emerson,  2d. 
Charles  H.  Isburgh. 
Thomas  W.  Chadbourne. 
George  N.  Noyes. 
George  Emerson,  2d. 
George  A  Mansfield. 
Charles  H.  Isburgh. 
Thomas  W.  Chadbourne. 
Moses  Parker,  M.D. 
Rev.  Nathan  P.  Selee. 


Leander  F.  Lynde,  Stonehatn. 
Daniel  Allen,  South  Reading. 


Rufus  Smith. 

John  Kingman,  Stoneham. 


Erastus  O.  Phinney,  Rev.  Wm.  S.  Barnes. 

M.D. 
Aaron  Green.  Nelson  Cochran. 

Elbridge  Green.        Gilbert  Nash. 


John  Botume,  Jr.,  Stoneham. 
James  F.  Mansfield,  So.  Reading. 

Levi  S.  Gould. 

James  F.  Mansfield,  So.  Reading. 


29 


226 


THE    l^ELROSE    MEMORIAL. 
VALUATION    OF    MELROSE. 


Year. 

Real  Estate. 

Personal  Estate. 

Total. 

1861. 

^1,288,066 

;?  1 34.754 

;^i, 423,820 

1863. 

1,320,280 

125,867 

1.446,147 

1863. 

1.334.643 

161,186 

1,495,829 

1864. 

1,329,68s 

126,057 

i,45S,74» 

1865. 

1,366,48s 

311.369 

1,677,854 

The  increase  of  valuation  in  the  real  estate  of  our  town, 
during  the  Rebellion,  was  seventy-eight  thousand  four 
hundred  and  nineteen  (^78,419.00)  dollars  ;  in  the  personal 
estate  the  increase  was  one  hundred  and  seventy-six  thou- 
sand, six  hundred  and  fifteen  (^176,615.00)  dollars;  an 
aggregate  of  two  hundred  fifty-five  thousand  and  thirty- 
four  (^255,034.00)  dollars ;  an  average  of  fifty-one  thousand 
and  seven  ($51,007.00)  dollars  a  year. 

It  should  be  stated  that  the  great  increase  in  personal 
property  for  the  year  1865,  over  previous  years,  was  owing 
to  the  fact  that  income  from  business  was  taxed  that  year, 
and  not  the  years  preceding. 


DEBT    AND    BOUNTIES. 
TABLE    OF    DEBT. 


22' 


»  United  States  Debt 

'  Massachusetts  Debt. 

9  Melrose  Town  Debt. 

July  I,  i860. 

164,769,703  08 

Dec.  31,  i860. 

^7.175.977  94 

March  16,  x86x. 

$29,260  00 

"    X,  1 861. 

90,867,828  68 

"     31,  1861. 

10,988,919  65 

"      24,  1862. 

35,560  00 

"    1,  1862. 

514,211.371  92 

"     31,  1862. 

11,129,578  71 

"        2,  1863. 

57,560  00 

"    1,  1863. 

x,098,793,i8i  37 

"     31,  1863. 

12,794,862  42 

I,  1864. 

53,900  00 

"    I,  1864. 

1,740,690,489  49 

"     31,  1864. 

22,529,015  34 

X,  1865. 

73.253  31 

"   1,  1865. 

2,682,593,026  53 

"     31,  1865. 

33.233.631  7S 

X,  1866. 

69.819  67 

"   X,  x866. 

2,783.425.879  2' 

"     31,  1866. 

25.SS5.747  51 

^  Tabular  statement  showing  the  bounties  paid  by  the  United 
States  during  the  war. 


Amount. 


^100 
400 

300 

300 


100 
200 
300 


By  what  authority  paid. 


Act  of  July  22,  i86i. 
G.  O.  191,  of  June  25, 

1863,  A.  G.O. 
Circular,  Oct.  24,  1863, 

P.  M.  G.  O. 
Telegram,  Dec. 24, 1863, 

from  A.  G.  O. 


Act  approved  July  4, 

'64,andcircularNo. 

27,   of   1864,   from 

P.  M.  G.  O. 

G.  O.  287,  A.  G.  O., 

Nov.  28,  1864. 
Letters  of  War  Depart- 
ment, Nov.  29,  1863, 
and  Dec.  22,  1863,  to 
Gens.  Butler  and  Gil- 


To  whom  paid. 


All  volunteers. 

Veterans. 

New  recruits  enlisting 
in  old  or^nizations. 

New  recruit.s  enlisting 
in  an^  three  year 
organization  author- 
ized by  the  War  De- 
partment. 

(Volunteers  enlisting 
for  one,  two,  and 
three  years. 

Men  enlisting  in   ist 

Army  Corps. 
Colored  recruits. 


From  com.  of  war  to  July  18,  1864. 

From  June  25,  '63,  to  April  i,  1864. 
From  Oct.  24,  '63,  to  April  i,  1864. 


From  Dec.  24,  '63,  to  April  i.  1864. 


Between  what  dates  paid. 


From  July  19,  '64,  to  July  i,  1865. 
From  Nov.  28,  '64,  to  July  i,  1865. 


*  Obtained  through  the  kindness  of  Mr.  William  B.  Willson,  of  Southboro',  Mass. 

*  The  real  debt  for  these  years  was  some  $6,000,000  less  than  these  figures,  that  amount 
being  loaned  to  different  Railroads  in  the  State  and  secured  by  mortgages.  The  State  Debt 
for  Jan.  i,  1868,  was  $26,573,560.12,  and  it  was  classified  in  the  report  of  the  Finance  Com- 
mittee as  follows : 

Railroad  Debt $6,751,196  00 

Ante- War  Debt 1,340,000  00 

War  Debt 16,573,244  00 

Temporary  Debt 1,909,120  12 

^26, 573, 560    13 

The  war  cost  Massachusetts  nearly  $28,000,000. 

"  For  net  amount  of  expenses  incurred  on  account  of  the  war,  see  page  219. 

*  This  table,  and  the  one  following  is  from  the  final  report  of  the  Provost-Marshal  General  of 
the  United  States,  James  B.  Fry. 


228 


THE    MELROSE     MEMORIAL. 


Estimate  of  the  number  of  men  to  whom  United  States  Bounty 
has  been  paid,  the  amount  paid  each  man,  and  the  total  amount 
paid,  from  May  3,  186 1,  /k?  the  end  of  the  war. 


Periods]  Number 

AinE 

Total 

Aggregate 

Periods  embraced. 

Qassofmen. 

of 

of 

per 

amount 

for 

service. 

men. 

man. 

paid. 

each   period. 

From  May  3,  1861,  to  Oct. 

17, 1863. 
From  Oct.  17, 1863,  to  July 

Volunteers. 

3  years. 

905,869 

$100 

190,586,900 

190,586,900 

Veteran  volun- 

158,507 

400 

63,402,800 

1 

18,  1864. 

teers. 

" 

>  Recruits. 

" 

257,028 

300 

77,108,400 

[•146,417.500 

" 

11,025 

100 

1,102,500 

Drafted  men 

48,038 

100 

4,803,800 

and  substitutes. 

" 

From  July  i8,  1864,  to  the 

Volunteers. 

I    year. 

191,936 

100 

19,193,600 

)    , 

end  of  the  war. 

" 

2  years. 

10,606 

200 

2,121,200 

63,219,100 

3  years. 

139,681 

300 

41,904,300 

Total 

.  .   .  . 

1,722,690 

$300,223,500 

1300,223,500 

DESTRUCTION    OF    A    REBEL    BLOCKADE    RUNNER. 

The  following  is  an  account  of  the  burning  of  the 
schooner  "  Isabel  "  while  under  the  guns  of  Fort  Morgan, 
in  May,  1863,  by  Lieutenant  N.  Mayo  Dyer,  —  then  Act- 
ing Master's  Mate,  —  written  by  him  the  next  day  after  the 
transaction.  It  was  a  daring  and  brilliant  achievement ; 
and  Captain  Jouett,  in  recommending  him  very  strongly 
for  promotion  as  Ensign,  spoke  of  it  as  "one  of  the  bold- 
est of  the  war,  and  was  conducted  with  matchless  coolness 
from  beginning  to  end." 

U.  S.  S.  "  R.  R.  CUYLER," 

Off  Mobile  Bar,  May  18,  1863. 

*  *  *  I  had  asked  and  obtained  permission  of  Captain  Jouett, 

to  allow  me  to  take  an  armed  boat  into  Swash  Channel,  by 

which  most  of  the  blockade  runners  ran  out  and  in,  in  order  to 

board  them  if  possible ;  if  not,  to  signalize  the  direction  they 


*  Enlisted  between  Oct,  17,  1863,  and  April  i,  1864. 

*  Enlisted  between  April  1,  1864,  and  July  18,  1864 


LIEUTENANT    DYER'S    EXPLOIT.  229 

took,  SO  as  to  be  taken  by  the  steamers.  Last  night  being  a 
favorable  night  for  some  schooners  that  we  knew  were  inside  to 
run  out,  I  had  everything  prepared,  and  at  6.20  left  the  ship 
and  pulled  in  shore.  The  position  I  wished  to  get  in  was  about 
a  quarter  of  a  mile  from  "  Fort  Morgan,"  where  the  channel  is  not 
above  a  half  mile  wide,  and  I  could  readily  see  anything  coming 
out  or  iiL  The  tide  was  running  very  strong  and  I  did  not 
reach  the  position  I  desired  until  10.30.  Coming  to  an  anchor, 
I  watched ;  I  could  plainly  see  a  man  on  the  beach,  we  were  so 
close.  About  11  I  discovered,  as  it  lit  up  a  little,  a  vessel 
ahead  of  me  and  nigher  the  Fort.  I  at  once  took  it  to  be  a 
steamer  from  the  inside,  come  out  to  look  after  just  such 
fellows  as  myself;  so  taking  a  position  a  little  nearer  him  so  as 
to  observe  any  movement  he  might  make,  I  kept  shady.  He 
was  apparently  at  anchor.  About  a  quarter  to  12,  behold 
what  I  supposed  was  a  steamer,  hoisted  her  mainsail,  and  I 
made  her  out  to  be  a  schooner  looking  quite  rakish;  but  still 
thought,  as  she  lay  so  quietly  at  anchor,  that  it  was  a  picket 
boat ;  however  I  pulled  up  to  her,  going  so  nigh  as  to  hear 
noises  distinctly.  She  lay  about  two  hundred  yards  from  the 
beach  of  "  Fort  Morgan,"  and  I  could  plainly  see  the  guns  frown- 
ng  over  the  parapets  of  the  Fort  I  wanted  to  board  her  at 
once,  and  proposed  it  to  ihe  men.  But  three  of  them  seemed  to 
take  the  idea  favorably ;  and  as  she  lay  so  nigh  the  Fort,  I  did 
not  like  the  idea  of  boarding  her  with  a  crew  of  unwilling  men. 
5o  pulling  up  again  and  reconnoitring  her  closely,  on  the 
in-shore  side,  I  saw  a  boat  pull  off  to  her  from  the  shore,  and 
discovered  she  had  a  hawser  out  to  the  Fort  also.  I  then  got  on 
the  off-shore  side  of  her  and  dropped  my  anchor  quietly,  near 
her.  I  was  provoked  to  find  any  disposition  to  back  out  on  the 
part  of  the  men ;  but  finally,  asking  them  individually,  seven  of 
the  thirteen  expressed  their  desire  to  board  her,  and  the  others 
said  they  would  go  into  "  Fort  Morgan  "  if  I  said  so,  but  considered 
it  a  little  imprudent,  as  I  had  orders  not  to  board  anything 
until  out  of  the  range  of  the  Fort.     You  see  I  was  hardly  justi- 


230  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

fied  in  ordering  my  men  to  follow  me  unwillingly.  However  I 
now  concluded  to  do  it,  and  pulling  right  astern  of  her,  giving 
my  directions  to  the  men  as  I  took  my  place  in  the  bow,  to  pull 
steadily,  and  the  moment  she  touched  the  schooner,  to  trail 
oars  and  get  on  her  decks  as  soon  as  possible,  using  only  the 
cold  steel,  as  fire-arms  would  have  brought  a  hornet's  nest 
about  our  heads.  Fully  expecting  to  find  her  armed,  I  was  sur- 
prised on  getting  close  to  her  to  see  that  she  had  a  deck-load 
of  cotton.  Whispering  my  men  to  give  way,  in  another  stroke 
we  were  alongside  and  aboard  of  her.  We  took  them  com- 
pletely by  surprise.  The  whole  crew,  seven  men,  were  on  deck 
and  awake,  and  the  first  intimation  they  had  of  what  was  up, 
they  beheld  us  coming  on  to  the  deck-load,  with  drawn  cutlasses, 
and  there  was  a  sharp  pointed  instrument  at  each  man's  breast 
before  he  knew  what  the  matter  was  ;  and  commanding  the 
utmost  silence,  I  ordered  them  all  into  the  boat  under  a  guard. 
They  were  as  docile  as  lambs.  I  went  at  one  poor  fellow  with 
my  cutlass,  the  first  man  I  saw  as  I  reached  the  deck,  and 
thinking  his  days  were  numbered,  he  gave  a  scream,  and  leaped 
overboard  like  a  frog ;  however  I  managed  to  get  him  aboard 
again.  I  soon  found  that  she  was  hard  ashore,  having  run 
aground  in  attempting  to  run  out.  Finding  it  impossible  to 
save  her,  that  is  get  her  off,  I  at  once  determined  to  burn  her ; 
so  securing  all  her  papers,  some  of  them  valuable,  I  spread 
cotton  all  over  the  cabin  floor  and  saturated  it  with  turpentine, 
of  which  she  had  seventy  or  eighty  barrels  on  deck  I  also 
emptied  a  barrel  of  the  same  on  deck  all  over  her  cotton,  and 
then  took  a  bucketful  of  it,  and  seeing  every  man  in  the  boat, 
set  fire  to  the  cabin  and  threw  my  bucketful  into  the  galley  on 
the  stove,  where  there  was  a  fire.  Like  a  flash  she  was  com- 
pletely covered  with  flames  fore  and  aft,  nearly  blinding  me 
with  smoke  and  heat  as  I  jumped  into  the  boat  and  shoved  off, 
just  as  a  Rebel  gun-boat  came  round  Mobile  Point,  about  a 
thousand  yards  off,  to  her  assistance.  The  boat  I  had  seen  board 
the  schooner  was  from  this  steamer,  and  had  returned  for  the 


NAVAL    VICTORY    AT    MOBILE.  23I 

Steamer  to  tow  her  off.  I  arrived  on  board  the  "  Cuyler  "  at  3.30, 
with  my  seven  prisoners,  and  was  warmly  congratulated  by  Cap- 
tain Jouett  and  my  fellow  officers.  She  was  the  rebel  schooner 
"  Isabel  "with  two  hundred  bales  of  cotton  and  about  one  hun- 
dred barrels  turpentine,  quite  a  valuable  cargo  if  it  could  have 
been  saved. 


FARRAGUT's     great    naval    victory    at     mobile  —  PAS- 
SAGE   OF    FORTS    "morgan"    AND    "GAINES." 

The  following  is  Lieutenant  Dyer's  interesting  account 
of  the  terrific  fight  and  complete  victory  of  our  navy,  in 
passing  Forts  "Morgan"  and  "Gaines."  Dyer  was,  at 
the  time  of  this  writing,  Acting  Master ;  and  for  some 
months  previous  to  this  action,  had  been  in  command  of 
the  steamer  "  Eugenie." 

U.  S.  S.  "  Metacomet," 

Inside  Mobile  Bay, 

Aug.  5,  1864. 

♦  *  *  Our  fleet,  consisting  of  fourteen  wooden  vessels  and  four 
iron-clads,  successfully  passed  Forts  "Morgan"  and  "Gaines  "this 
morning  at  8  o'clock,  whipping  the  Rebel  fleet,  and  is  at  this 
moment  in  complete  possession  of  Mobile  Bay.  I  wish  you  could 
just  be  on  board  this,  or  any  other  vessel  here  for  a  few  minutes 
and  witness  the  scene.  We  are  all  now  lying  quietly  at  anchor  in 
the  Bay,  with  the  Star  Spangled  Banner  floating  from  every  gaff 
and  mast-head  in  the  fleet,  and  in  our  midst  the  famous  ram 
"Tennessee,"  Admiral  Buchanan,  and  the  Confederate  gun- 
boat "  Selma,"  both  of  which  struck  their  colors  to  our  victo- 
rious flag.  Our  loss  has  been  the  heaviest  of  any  naval  fight 
of  the  war  by  far.  This  ship  was  struck  about  twenty  times, 
but  strange  to  say  we  have  lost  but  one  killed  and  two  wounded. 
In  all  we  have  about  fifty  killed  and  seventy-five  wounded,  not 
including  the  monitor  "  Tecumseh,"  which  was  blown  up  by  a 


232  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

torpedo,  and  all  hands  sank  with  her  except  twelve  or  fourteen 
—  ten  of  whom  were  picked  up  by  a  boat  from  this  ship.  But 
to  give  you  something  of  an  idea  of  the  fight,  I  will  inclose  a 
diagram  of  our  position  at  the  time  the  "  Tecumseh  "  blew  up. 
I  have  placed  the  ships  in  the  position  they  were  at  the  decisive 
moment  of  the  fight,  the  time  that  the  "  Tecumseh  "  blew  up. 
As  you  will  see,  the  line  was  formed  as  follows :  —  "  Brooklyn," 
with  the  "  Octorora  "  alongside ;  "  Hartford  "  —  Flag-Ship,  — 
with  the  "  Metacomet  "  ;  "  Richmond  "  and  "  Port  Royal "  ; 
"  Lackawanna "  and  "  Kennebec  "; "  Ossipee  "  and  "  Seminole"; 
'"  Monongahela  "  and  "  Itasca,"  and  the  "  Oneida "  and 
"Galena";  the  "Tecumseh"  was  to  the  right  of  the  "Brook- 
lyn," the  "Manhattan"  to  the  right  of  the  "Hartford,"  the 
"  Winnebago  "  to  the  right  of  the  "  Richmond,"  and  the 
"  Chickasaw  "  to  the  right  of  the  "  Lackawanna,"  the  four  last 
being  monitors. 

At  6.30  our  line  was  formed,  and  we  advanced  to  the  con- 
flict,—  with  an  ensign  at  every  mast-head  and  gaff  in  the  fleet. 
And  in  the  light  of  an  August  morning's  sun  the  bright  hues  of 
our  banners  seemed  to  inspire  every  one  with  courage  and  hope, 
notwithstanding  many,  no  doubt,  with  myself,  felt  the  momentous 
importance  of  the  moment ;  and  with  an  inward  prayer  for 
victory,  nerved  themselves  for  the  fight.  At  seven  o'clock  "  Fort 
Morgan "  opened  fire,  which  was  at  once  returned  from  the 
"  Brooklyn's  "  forecastle  gun,  and  soon  after,  by  a  broadside 
from  the  "Brooklyn"  and  "  Hartford,"  when  the  fight  became 
general  with  the  leading  ships.  From  this  time  until  7.45  the 
firing  was  rapid.  The  rebel  fleet  had  come  out  from  behind  the 
point  and  lay  directly  ahead  of  our  line  delivering  a  raking  fire 
upon  us,  which  we  could  not  return.  About  this  time  the 
"  Brooklyn  "  discovered  a  torpedo  ahead,  and  backing  to  clear 
it,  the  "  Hartford  "  and  this  ship  took  the  lead,  and  at  eight 
o'clock  were  in  the  position  described  by  the  diagram.  At  8.05 
the  "Tecumseh"  blew  up,  close  on  our  starboard  beam  —  and 
the  firing  now  was  terrific.    To  attempt  a  description  is  impossi- 


NAVAL   FIGHT    IN    MOBILE    BAY.  233 

ble.  Forts  "  Morgan  "  and  "Gaines  "  upon  either  side  —  four  gun- 
boats ahead  raking  us,  and  the  "  Tecumseh  "  going  down  before 
our  eyes.  We  sent  a  boat  to  pick  up  the  floating.  The  Admiral 
then  steamed  with  the  "  Hartford  "  close  in  to  the  Fort,  within 
two  hundred  yards  of  the  beach,  closely  followed  by  the  "  Brook- 
lyn," and  poured  broadside  after  broadside  of  grape  and  can- 
ister into  them,  steaming  slowly  ahead  all  the  time.  As  soon 
as  we  had  passed  out  of  range  of  their  grape,  we  cut  loose  from 
the  "  Hartford  "  and  steamed  off  on  our  own  hook  for  the  three 
gun-boats  ahead  ;  they  at  once  headed  up  the  bay,  fighting  us 
at  the  same  time.  We  engaged  the  whole  of  them,  leaving  the 
"  Tennessee "  to  the  tender  mercies  of  the  fleet.  We  soon 
succeeded  in  crippling  the  "Gaines,"  and  we  then  had  the 
"  Morgan  "  on  one  bow  and  the  "  Selma  "  on  the  other.  Soon 
the  "  Morgan  "  turned  her  tail,  and  after  a  running  fight  of  fifty 
minutes  the  "  Selma "  struck  her  colors  and  I  was  ordered  on 
board  to  take  charge.  I  did  so,  and  found  five  men  killed  and 
ten  wounded,  three  of  whom  have  since  died.  Transferred  pris- 
oners to  our  ship,  buried  the  dead,  hoisted  the  Stars  and  Stripes 
and  steamed  down  to  the  Admiral.  We  were  about  seven  miles 
from  our  fleet  when  she  surrendered.  As  the  "  Metacomet "  is 
"to  go  to  Pensacola  with  the  wounded,  myself  with  my  prize  crew 
have  just  returned  to  our  ship,  having  been  relieved,  and  the 
wounded  on  both  sides  are  now  coming  on  board.  The  "  Ten- 
nessee "  surrendered  to  the  fleet  after  a  desperate  fight.  She 
did  not  fulfil  the  boast  of  Admiral  Buchanan,  C.  S-  Navy,  of 
"  whipping  the  whole  Yankee  fleet  in  one  hour  "  quite !  though 
she  is  a  most  formidable  vessel ;  and  nothing  but  a  determina- 
tion to  destroy  her,  or  be  destroyed,  effected  her  capture. 
Admiral  Buchanan,  commanding  the  rebel  fleet,  is  now  on  board 
wounded  in  the  leg.  The  officers  of  the  "  Selma"  and  "  Ten- 
nessee," so  far  as  I  have  seen,  take  it  quite  coolly,  though 
evidently  much  chagrined  at  the  result ;  they  are  gentlemen, 
and  I  think  have  no  fault  to  find  with  their  treatment  so  far. 
I  am  deeply  thankful  for  my  escape  thus  far  and  I  hope  I  may 
be  equally  fortunate  still. 
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234  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

Pensacola,  Aug.  6. 
At  daylight  this  morning  got  under  weigh  from  our  anchorage 
and  ran  down  to  "  Fort  Morgan  "  with  all  the  wounded  on  board. 
I  was  sent  to  communicate  with  the  Fort,  under  a  flag  of 
truce,  and  delivered  the  bodies  of  two  officers,  killed  on  board 
the  "  Selma,"  and  received  permission  to  take  the  wounded  to 
this  place,  where  we  arrived  at  2  P.  M.  We  have  delivered  the 
wounded  to  the  hospital,  and  to-morrow  morning  start  again  for 
Mobile  Bay,  having  come  out  with  the  express  understanding 
that  we  were  to  return  and  report  to  the  Fort  as  soon  as  possible. 
The  only  outlet  is  by  the  same  way  we  entered,  and  therefore, 
until  we  effect  the  capture  of  one  of  the  three  forts,  we  are  vir- 
tually blockaded,  our  communications  cut  off,  etc.  "  Fort  Powell " 
is  the  smallest  and  weakest  fort,  and  without  doubt  we  shall  have 
that  within  a  day  or  two,  when  we  can  work  at  our  leisure,  as 
their  communications  are  as  effectually  cut  off  as  ours.  With  five 
thousand  troops  all  three  forts  would  be  in  our  possession  in  less 
than  a  fortnight,  in  my  opinion,  and  I  think  we  shall  have  that 
number  soon.  Already  our  forces  occupy  a  portion  of  Dauphin 
Island,  on  which  "  Fort  Gaines  "  is  situated,  and  are  operating 
against  it,  under  command  of  General  Granger. 

A  short  extract  from  another  of  Lieutenant  Dyer's 
letters,  written  five  days  later,  is  interesting  as  giving  an 
idea  of  the  sentiments  of  the  people  in  and  about  Mobile 
at  that  time. 

....  You  are  doubtless  looking  for  the  fall  of  Mobile  City 
daily,  but  be  not  impatient ;  when  we  g^t  ready  then  the  thing 
will  be  accomplished.  "  Fort  Powell,"  commanding  "  Grant's 
Passj"  has  been  blown  up  and  abandoned,  and  "  Fort  Gaines  " 
has  surrendered  to  the  Navy,  with  its  garrison  of  eight  hundred 
and  fifty  men,  and  our  flag  now  waves  over  both  forts.  "  Fort 
Morgan  "  still  holds  out,  but  its  surrender  is  but'a  question  of 
time.     Our  fleet  is  all  around  it,  that  is,  have  complete  control  of 


SCENES    ABOUT    MOBILE    BAY.  235 

its  water  approaches,  and  the  army  is  within  four  hundred  yards 

of  its  walls  on  the  land To-day  we  have  been  up  the 

Bay  on  a  reconnoissance,  to  within  five  miles  of  the  city,  and 
have  had  a  grand  view  of  the  town  and  its  water  defences.  About 
three  and  a  half  miles  below  the  town  is  what  is  called  Dog 
River  Bar,  where  they  have  made  extensive  preparations  to 
receive  us.  The  channel  is  sealed  up  by  sunken  vessels,  piles, 
etc. ;  and  then  above  them  they  have  three  rams  and  two  iron- 
clad floating  batteries,  besides  batteries  upon  the  shore  both 

sides  up  to  the  city About  eight  miles  below  the  city 

I  landed  with  a  party,  and  visited  several  houses  in  the  vicinity. 
Saw  one  woman  who  left  the  city  this  morning ;  she  says  the 
greatest  excitement  exists  in  Mobile,  but  that  there  are  very  few 
troops  there.  There  is  not  an  able-bodied  man,  nor  boy  over 
twelve  years  of  age,  on  either  side  of  the  Bay ;  every  one  is  con- 
scripted, or  fled  to  the  woods  to  escape  it.  Those  that  I  saw, 
most  of  them,  are  manifestly  glad  to  see  us,  but  dare  not  say  all 
they  wish  till  they  are  sure  that  we  will  remain.  One  very  pretty 
young  lady  remarked  to  me,  in  answer  to  my  question,  as  to 
whether  there  were  any  Union  people  about,  "  If  we  only  were 
certain  of  your  stopping  here,  you  could  find  nothing  but  Union 
people,  and  real  Union  people,  too ;  but  if  it  should  be  known 
that  we  gave  you  any  information,  they  would  take  us  to  town 
and  put  us  in  the  common  jail."  Consequently  when  we 
wanted  to  purchase  some  chickens  or  peaches,  they  would  take 
no  money,  but  told  us  to  take  them,  and  then  they  could  say 
we  took  them  by  force.  They  seemed  anxious  to  hurry  us  off, 
for  they  momentarily  expected  a  company  of  cavalry  from  town. 
I  established  a  code  of  signals  with  one  woman  there,  by  which 
I  can  tell  hereafter  whether  there  are  any  troops  in  the  vicinity, 
before  landing. 

INCIDENTS. 

The  following  incidents  are  here  introduced  from  "  Carle- 
ton's  "  "  Four  Years  of  Fighting,"  because  they  happened  in 
connection  with  the  Thirteenth  Massachusetts  Regiment, 


236  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

in  which  we  had  a  goodly  number  of  "  boys  in  blue,"  and 
relate  so  closely  to  him  who  was  our  friend  and  neighbor, 
the  brave  and  lamented  Colonel  —  then  Major — J.  Parker 
Gould,  of  Stoneham.^  Colonel  Gould  represented  our 
district  in  the  Legislature  during  the  winter  of  1858-9. 
He  led  his  Regiment,  —  the  Fifty-Ninth  Massachusetts, 
—  into  the  last  campaign,  and  was  then  assigned  to  the 
command  of  First  Brigade,  First  Division,  Ninth  Army 
Corps  ;  and  when  before  Petersburg,  he  was  severely 
wounded.  While  at  Philadelphia,  on  his  way  home,  he 
died.  He  was  a  noble  man,  loved  and  respected  for  his 
heroic  qualities  and  Christian  virtues,  by  all  who  knew 
him  ;  and  by  none  more  so  than  by  those  who  served 
under  him  during  the  war.^ 


*  The  Thirteenth  Regiment  furnished  many  officers  for  other  organizations. 
Our  Lieutenant  Dyer,  now  in  the  U.  S.  Navy,  Captain  Simonds  of  the  Third 
Massachusetts  Cavalry,  and  Lieutenant  Morse,  killed  at  "  Battle  of  Spottsyl- 
vania,"  all  rose  from  its  ranks.  In  recommending  men  in  the  service  for 
appointments,  Governor  Andrew  said  of  the  Thirteenth  :  —  "  Batchelder  is 
not  needed  there.  That  regiment  could  furnish  officers  for  a  whole  regiment 
outside  of  itself,  and  be  no  more  weakened  than  is  a  bird  by  laying  its  eggs. 
It  is  remarkable  for  its  excellence  of  material." 

Several  poems  were  written  complimentary  to  this  regiment.  One  entitled 
"Song  of  the  Thirteenth  Regiment,  Massachusetts  Rifles."  Another  "The 
Gallant  Thirteenth,"  written  just  after  the  fights  of  "Bolivar  Heights"  and 
"  Harper's  Ferry,"  two  stanzas  of  which  are  as  follows : 

Tried,  and  found  not  wanting  !  valiant,  firm,  and  true, 
Boston  fathers'  flowing  hearts  send  greeting  back  to  you ; 
Tears  were  dried  in  loving  pride,  when  first  you  marched  away, 
How  proudly  now  lifts  every  brow,  that  you  have  won  the  day  I 
********* 

And  now,  all  question  put  aside,  they  know  you  as  you  are. 

The  heroes  who  set  at  nought  at  Heig;hts  of  Bolivar ! 

And  Harper's  Ferry,  names  which  hence,  long  as  Potomac  roll. 

Emblazoned,  shine  along  the  line,  on  the  gallant  Thirteenth's  scroll  I 

*  The  following  extract  from  a  letter  to  one  of  our  citizens,  written  just  before 
the  Peninsula  campaign  of  1862,  shows  his  hopeful  spirit :  "  I  think  I  have 
seen  most  all  the  varieties  in  the  bill  of  waAzxt,  from  the  common  duties  to 


THE    INTELLIGENT    SLAVE.  237 

These  incidents  happened  while  a  detachment  of  the 
Thirteenth  Regiment,  under  Major  Gould,  was  stationed 
at  Hancock,  Md.,  and  in  the  winter  of  1861-2.  And  it 
must  be  remembered  that  at  that  time  slaves  were  returned 
to  their  so-called  loyal  masters,  and  the  Hutchinsons  had 
been  expelled,  by  order  of  General  McClellan,  from  the 
camps  of  our  soldier  boys,  where  they  had  been  singing, 
because  they  sang  abolition  songs,  and  it  was  feared  the 
soldiers'  minds  would  be  poisoned  thereby.  But  a  change 
was  gradually  taking  place  in  public  opinion,  on  these 
matters. 

A  negro  slave,  belonging  in  Winchester,  came  into  the 
lines.  He  was  intelligent,  cautious,  shrewd,  and  loyal. 
Major  Gould  did  not  return  him  to  his  master,  but  asked 
him  if  he  would  go  back  and  ascertain  the  whereabouts  of 
Stonewall  Jackson ;  the  negro  readily  assented.  He  was 
supplied  with  packages  of  medicine,  needles,  thread,  and 
other  light  articles  greatly  needed  in  the  South.  With  these 
he  easily  passed  the  Rebel  pickets :  "  Been  out  to  get  'em 
for  massa,"  was  his  answer,  when  questioned  by  the  rebels. 


the  smart  skirmish.  Yet  I  wish  to  see  it  out,  for  no  man  can  see  the  service 
that  I  have  seen,  without  leaning  to  warlike  feelings.  The  rebels  must  be  taught 
one  everlasting  lesson.  I  predict  that  the  Union  forces  will  succeed,  and  if  so, 
slavery  is  a  dead  letter.  Though  slavery  is  not  the  question  in  the  contest, 
it  will  die  away  naturally,  and  perforce  Union  is  the  question,  and  it  is  the 
only  necessary  question  now,  and  it  is  going  to  be  decided  in  the  affirmative. 
I  thought  some  time  ago  that  most  of  the  fighting  would  be  over  by  June, 
so  that  perhaps  we  should  be  ordered  home  by  July  —  but  now  I  think  it 
may  possibly  take  longer.  If  the  coming  battles  at  Yorktown  and  Corinth  must 
decide  the  hard  fate  of  the  war  so  far  as  large  battles  are  concerned,  —  still, 
from  the  character  of  the  people,  there  will  probably  be  much  guerilla  fighting. 
But  the  Southern  people  have  become  singularly  educated,  and  they  are  singu- 
larly ignorant."  In  the  spring  of  1864,  when  Colonel  of  the  59th  Regiment, 
and  just  before  the  final  campaign,  the  same  cheerful  and  hopeful  spirit 
animated  him,  he  then  predicting,  in  conversation,  certain  successes,  and 
that  by  the  following  Christmas. 


238 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Thus  he  passed  repeatedly  into  the  rebel  lines,  obtaining 
information  which  was  transmitted  to  Washington,  He 
had  great  influence  with  the  slaves. 

"  They  are  becoming  restless,"  said  he,  "  but  I  tells  'em  that 
they  must  be  quiet.  I  says  to  'em  keep  yer  eyes  wide  open  and 
pray  for  de  good  time  comin'.  I  tells  'em  if  de  Souf  whip,  it  is 
all  night  wid  yer;  but  if  de  Norf  whip  it  is  all  day  wid  yer." 
" Do  they  believe  it?"  Major  Gould  asked.  "Yes,  massa,  all 
believe  it.  The  black  men  am  all  wid  yer,  only  some  of  'em 
isn't  bery  well  informed ;  but  dey  is  all  wid  yer.  Massa  tinks 
dey  isn't  wid  yer,  but  dey  is." 

How  sublime  the  picture !  —  a  slave  counselling  his 
fellow-bondmen  to  keep  quiet  and  wait  till  God  should 
give  them  deliverance. 

Among  the  many  rebel  ministers  who  had  done  what 
they  could  to  precipitate  the  Rebellion,  was  a  Presbyterian 
minister  in  the  vicinity  of  Charlestown,  Va.  It  was  his 
custom,  after  closing  his  sermon,  to  invite  the  young  men 
to  enlist  in  the  regiments  then  forming.  On  one  of  these 
occasions  he  made  an  address  in  which  he  gave  utterance 
to  the  following  sentiment : 

"  If  it  is  necessar\'  to  defend  Southern  institutions  and  South- 
ern rights,  I  will  wade  up  to  my  shoulders  in  blood  ! " 

This  was  brave  ;  but  the  time  came  when  the  chivalry 
of  the  parson  was  put  to  the  test.  When  the  rebels  were 
routed  at  Bolivar,  he,  not  being  mounted  on  so  fleet  a 
horse  as  those  of  his  flock  who  had  given  heed  to  his 
counsels  and  joined  the  cavalry,  found  himself  left  behind. 
A  bullet  lodged  in  the  body  of  his  horse  prevented  escape. 
He  then  tried  his  own  legs,  but  soon  found  himself  in  the 
hands  of  the  soldiers,  who  brought  him  to  head-quarters. 


A    SLIGHT    MISTAKE.  239 

He  at  once  claimed  protection  of  Major  Gould  on  the  most 
extraordinary  grounds.  He  had  read  the  poems  of  Hannah 
Gould,  and  presumed  that  Major  Gould,  hailing  from 
Massachusetts,  must  be  her  kinsman.  When  confronted 
with  the  Major  he  promptly  exclaimed, 

"  Major,  I  have  read  the  poems  of  Miss  Hannah  Gould,  and 
admire  them  ;  presuming  that  she  is  a  relative  of  yours,  I  claim 
your  protection  and  consideration." 

The  Major  replied  that  he  had  not  the  honor  to  be  a 
relative  of  that  gifted  lady,  but  that  he  should  accord  him 
all  the  consideration  due  to  those  who  had  rebelled  against 
the  peace  and  dignity  of  the  United  States,  and  had  been 
taken  with  arms  in  their  hands.  He  was  marched  off  with 
the  others,  and  placed  under  guard. 


ARTICLES    EXCHANGED. 

In  a  letter  to  the  writer,  from  Lieutenant  George  C. 
Kaulback,  of  the  Tenth  Massachusetts  Regiment,  written 
after  the  battle  of  "  Fredericksburg,"  while  lying  on  the 
banks  of  the  Rappahannock,  is  described  the  manner  in 
which  articles  of  daily  use  were  frequently  exchanged 
between  the  rebels  and  our  troops.  This  was  done  by  means 
of  slips  of  wood,  two  or  three  feet  long,  cut  into  the  form 
of  boats,  and  sent  across  with  little  sails.  The  following 
letter  came  over  in  this  way,  tied  to  the  mast  of  one  of 
these  boats : 

Outpost,  Feb.  9,  1863. 

Gents,  on  U.  S.  Duty :  We  have  received  the  small  cargo 
of  coffee.  Accept  our  sincere  thanks.  In  return  we  send  you 
a  small  quantity  of  tobacco.  We  regret  it  is  so  small.  In  regard 
to   Abe's  negro  proclamation  —  we  suppose  you   all  cordially 


240  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

endorse  this  last  great  act.  Abe  says  "  he  cannot  escape 
history."  But  he  need  not  be  alarmed.  He  is  not  known  out- 
side of  his  own  dominions  as  anybody  but  Abe  Lincoln,  a 
perjured  villain.  How  does  he  and  you  reconcile  to  your  vile 
consciences  his  oath  he  took  on  the  4th  of  March,  1861,  when 
he  pledged  his  honor  as  a  dog,  that  he  had  no  intention  to  inter- 
fere with  the  institution  of  slavery  where  it  existed,  and  to  sup- 
port the  Constitution  of  the  United  States,  as  made  by  our 
forefathers. 

We  are,  gents. 

Yours  truly, 

REBELS. 

P.  S.     How  long  before  your  army  of  observation  will  make 
another  "  On  to  Richmond  !  " 


XVII. 


LIST    OF    COMMISSIONED    OFFICERS    FROM    MELROSE. 

Names.  Date  of  commission. 

BREVET    COLONEL. 

Archibald  Bogle.  Seventeenth  Massachusetts  Regiment 
Infantry  and  Thirty-Fifth  U.  S.  C. 
Troops.  Second  Lieutenant,  Aug.  21, 
1861 ;  First  Lieutenant,  May  28, 1862. 
Major,  May  20,  1863  ;  Brevet  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, March  13,  1864; 
Brevet  Colonel,  March  13,  1865  ; 
Commissioned  First  Lieutenant  in 
United  States  Army,  and  assigned  to 
Thirty-Ninth  U.  S.  Infantry  at  New 
Orleans,  March,  1868. 

^  MAJOR. 

J.  Spencer  Drayton.^  Thirty-Fifth  U.  S.  Colored  Troops. 
First  Lieutenant  and  Quartermaster, 
April  28,  1863  ;  Captain,  July  14, 
1863;  on  General  Wild's  Staff,  from 
July  14,  1863,  until  June  28,  1864, 
when  discharged  for  disability  ;  Com- 
missioned Paymaster  for  State  of 
Massachusetts,  with  rank  of  Major, 
July  23,  1864,  and  ordered  to  New 
Berne,  N.  C.  Remained  until  April, 
1865.     Discharged  Dec.  31,  1866. 

'  When  Rebellion  broke  out  was  resident  in  Dedham,  and  enlisted  in 
Second  Massachusetts  Battery  ;   discharged  for  disability ;   re-enlisted  Feb. 
31 


242  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL: 

CAPTAINS. 

Joseph  R.  Simonds.  Seventeenth  Massachusetts  Regi- 
ment Infantry,  Aug.  21,  1861. 

Joseph  F.  Simonds.  Third  Massachusetts  Cavalry. 
Second  Lieutenant,  Sept.  20,  1 864 ; 
First  Lieutenant,  May  28,  1865  ; 
Captain,  Oct.  5,  1865. 

FIRST    LIEUTENANTS. 

George  W.  Batchelder.  Thirty-Second  Massachusetts 
Regiment  Infantry.  Second  Lieu- 
tenant, Dec.  4,  1864;  First  Lieuten- 
ant, April  I,  1865, 

J.  Wesley  Jones.     Twelfth  U.  S.  Infantry.  May  14,  1861. 

George  T.  Martin.  Thirty-Eighth  Massachusetts  Regi- 
ment Infantry  and  Fourth  Heavy 
Artillery.  Second  Lieutenant,  Aug. 
16,  1862  ;  First  Lieutenant,  April  14, 
1863  ;  Senior  First  Lieutenant,  Aug. 
16,  1864,  * 

George  J.  Morse.  Second  U.  S.  Colored  Troops  and 
Fifty-Ninth  Massachusetts  Regiment 
Infantry.  Second  Lieutenant,  March 
2,  1863  ;  Second  Lieutenant  Fifty- 
Ninth  Regiment,  Oct.  22, 1863  ;  First 
Lieutenant,  March  4,  1864. 

George  G.  Nichols.  Seventh  Unattached  Company 
Infantry.  First  Lieutenant,  May  6, 
1864.  Fourth  Heavy  Artillery.  First 
Lieutenant,  Aug.  18,  1864. 


21.  1862,  in  Co.  A,  First  Heavy  Artillery;  appointed  Quartermaster-Ser- 
geant March  i,  1862  ;  detached  in  August,  and  ordered  to  report  to  Colonel 
J.  Dimmock,  cdmmanding  First  U.  S.  Artillery  at  Fort  Warren,  as  Commis- 
sary-Sergeant. 


LIST    OF    OFFICERS.  243 

SECOND    LIEUTENANTS. 
George  A.  Chipman.  Sixth  Massachusetts.  July  20, 1864. 
Jacob  M.  Ellis.  Second     Massachusetts    Battery. 

Jan.  8,  1865. 
GuRDON     McKay.       Twenty  -  Second       Massachusetts 

Regiment    Infantry,     Oct  i,    1861. 
Charles  H.  Stevens.  First  Massachusetts  Cavalry.  Jan. 

2,  1864. 

BREVET    LIEUTENANTS. 

Edward  W.  Kendall.  Seventeenth  Massachusetts  Regi- 
ment, Brevet  First  Lieutenant,  Sept, 
2,  1864. 

George  W.  Lynde.  Seventeenth  Massachusetts  Regi- 
ment Brevet  Second  Lieutenant, 
Dec.  31,  1864. 

ASSISTANT    SURGEON. 
Samuel  Ingalls,  M.  D.     Fifth  Massachusetts   Cavalry. 
Jan.  II,  1864.^ 

OFFICERS    IN    THE    NAVY. 

N.  Mayo  Dyer.  Acting  Master's  Mate.  May  2,  1862  ; 
Acting  Ensign,  May  20,  1863  ;  Act- 
ing Master,  Jan.  12,  1864;  Acting 
Lieutenant,  April  22, 1865  ;  Lieuten- 
ant in  Regular  Navy,  March  12,  1868. 

Edward  A.  Small.  Acting  Ensign,  June  16,  1862; 
Acting  Master,  Feb.  22,  1865. 

James  F.  Perkins.     Acting  Ensign,  Nov.  14,  1862. 

William  A.  Fuller.  Third  Assistant  Engineer,  March 
23,  1864. 

'  Was  Acting  Assistant- Surgeon  U.  S.  A.  in  Lincoln  General  Hospital, 
Washington,  D.  C,  and  U.  S.  General  Hospital,  at  Portsmouth  Grove,  R.  I., 
from  Dec.  1862  to  Jan.  i,  1864. 


244 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

ALPHABETICAL    ROLL   OF 


Names. 

Regiment. 

Company. 

Rank. 

A. 

Aldridge,  William  H.  . 

59 

F 

Private. 

Anderson,  John  H.  L. 

8 

E 

(( 

Anderson,  Leonard  B.  . 

44 

I 

<( 

Andrews,  Edwin  A. 

2d  Bat. 

Corporal. 

Arnold,  Charles  H. 

15 

A 

Private. 

B. 

Barnard,  John  M.,  Jr.   . 

42 

G 

Private. 

Barrett,  Charles        .     . 

42 

G 

<( 

Barrett,  Charles  L. 

42 

G 

(( 

Barron,  Elliot  F.      .     . 

50 

E 

(( 

Barron,  Henry     .     .     . 

22 

G 

Wagon'r. 

Barry,  Garrette    .     .     . 

28 

A 

Private. 

Barry,  John     .... 

59 

A 

« 

Barry,  Royal  P.   .     .     . 

45 

D 

Serge'nt. 

Barry,  William  F.    .     . 

13 

A 

Private. 

Beaman,  William     .     . 

Navy 

Seaman. 

Bickford,  Nelson  W.     . 

38 

I 

Private. 

( 

5 

B 

« 

Batchelder,  George  W.  < 

22 

G 

Serge'nt. 

( 

32 

C 

I  St  Lieut. 

Boardman,  Charles  .     . 

42 

G 

Private. 

Bodwell,  Henry  A.  .       j 

22 

Navy 

G 

Seaman. 

Bogle,  Archibald      •       | 

17 
35U.S.C.T. 

I 

2d  Lieut. 
Bvt.  Col. 

Bosson,  Samuel  .      .     . 

Navy 

Seaman. 

Boyd,  Robert      .      .     . 

19 

A 

Private. 

ROLL   OF    SOLDIERS. 

SOLDIERS    FROM    MELROSE. 


245 


Term  of  Enlistment 

Discharged. 

Remarks. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

One  hundred  days. 

With  Regiment. 

Nine  months. 

(( 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

(( 

(( 

Non-resident. 

Nine  months. 
(t 

With  Regiment. 

Prisoner,  Texas. 
« 

Three  years. 

« 
Expiration  of  service. 

^ 

« 
« 

« 
« 

Non-resident. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Three  years. 

KilledjAntietam 
Sept.  17,  1862. 

« 

Expiration  of  service. 

Substitute  for 
Geo.  W.  Heath. 

tt 

DisabiUty. 

Three  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Re-enlisted. 

Three  years. 

Prisoner,  Libby. 

Close  of  war. 

Re-enlisted. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Prisoner,  Texas. 

Three  years. 

Re-enhsted. 

(( 

Expiration  of  service. 

(( 

For  promotion. 

Wd.Pris.,Ander- 

(( 

Close  of  war. 

sonville.  Now  in 
U.  S.  Army. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

(( 

(( 

(< 

246 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Names. 


Brand,  Nathan  H. 


Brandon,  Edward  A 
Bridges,  Henry   . 
Brierly,  James 
Brimmer,  Daniel 
Brown,  George    . 
Brown,  Jonas  G. 


Brown,  Robert  .  . 
Brown,  Thomas  .  . 
Bryant,  Thomas  O. 
Buckley,  James  .  . 
Buffum,  Adelbert  A. 
Burke,  Patrick  .  . 
Burnham,  Oliver  R. 
Burnham,  Paschal  E. 
Burns,  Francis  .  . 
Burtwell,  Thomas  . 
Bush,  Henry  .     .     . 

Buttrick,  John  W.    . 
C. 

Carlisle,  John .     .     . 
Chambers  John.  .     . 
Chandler,  Roswell  W. 
Chapin,  Joseph  A.   . 

Chase,  Ede  K.     .     . 
Cheever,  Augustus  L. 
Cherain,  Charles 

Chipman,  George  A. 


Regiment. 


9th  Bat. 


2d  Cav. 

42 

5th  U.S.  Cav. 

nth  U.S.  I. 

50 


II 

5th  U.S.  Cav, 

42 
Vet.  R.  C. 
24 
2d  Cav. 
6 
42 

39 
19 

54 

42 


18 

28 
I  St  Cav. 
9th  Bat. 


3d  H.  Art. 
5th  U.S.  Cav. 

45 
6 


Company. 


Rank. 


I 

G 
B 


E 


I 
G 

B 
D 
A 
G 
I 


E 
G 


A 
C 

D 

A 


Private. 


Corporal. 
Private. 


Corporal. 


Private. 


2d  Lieut. 


ROLL    OF    SOLDIERS. 


247 


Term  of  Enlistment 

Discharged. 

Remarks. 

Three  years. 

Died  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C, 
March  6,  1864. 

(( 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

Nine  months. 

Non-res.  des'tr. 

Three  years. 
« 

Expiration  of  service. 
« 

Non-resident. 
« 

u 

M 

Sub.  J.C.  Howes. 

Nine  months. 

Died  at  Baton 

Rouge,  La.,  June 

18,  1863. 

Three  years. 

« 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Prisoner,  Texas. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 
« 

Non-resident. 

« 

(1 

Non-res.  des'tr. 

One  hundred  days. 

With  Regiment. 

Nine  months. 

Disability. 

Three  years. 
« 

Expiration  of  service. 
it 

Non-resident. 
tt 

it 

tt 

tt 

DiedFeb.  23,'63. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Prisoner,  Texas. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 
« 

ti 

Disability. 

it 

For  promotion. 

Hos,  Steward, 
U.  S.  Army. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment, 

Three  years. 

Disability. 

(( 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

One  hundred  days. 

« 

248 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Names. 

Regiment. 

Company, 

Rank. 

Clark,  Frederick  F. 

42 

G 

Private. 

Clark,  James  .... 

2d  Cav. 

C 

(< 

Clark,  Symonds  .     .     . 

4th  U.S.  Art. 

A 

<( 

Colbert,  Thomas      .     . 

5th  U.S.Cav. 

« 

Condon,  James    .     .     . 

5th  U.S.Cav. 

Drum'er. 

Conway,  Thomas     .     . 

Vet.  R.  C. 

Private. 

Corson,  Frederick  U.   . 

42 

G 

Cowan,  Thomas       .     . 

1 2th  U.  S.  I. 

I 

Cox,  James  P.      .     ,     . 

50 

E 

Crane,  William  P.,  Jr. 

48 

D 

Creeley,  William      .     . 

9 

E 

Crocker,  John  H,     .     . 

13 

A 

« 

Crocker,  Joseph  C. 

44 

I 

Private. 

Crockett,  Albert  W.     . 

17 

K 

(( 

Crockett,  George  F,     . 

3d  Bat. 

« 

Cronk,  Sydnia     ... 

» 
19 

C 

(( 

Currier,  Henry    .     .     , 

3d  U.  S.  Art. 

I 

(( 

Currier,  John  H.      .     . 

17 

A 

« 

Cutting,  William  H.  Jr. 

45 

D 

« 

D. 

Darley,  Caspar    .     ,     . 

3d  U.  S.  Art. 

Private. 

Davis,  Edmund  W. 

22 

G 

Corporal. 

Davis,  James  L.       .     . 

42 
7th  Un.Co.  I. 

G 

Private. 

Davis,  John  E.     .     .     . 

42 

G 

<( 

Davis,  John  W.   .     .     . 

3d  H.  Art. 

E 

« 

Davis,  Loami  G.      .     . 

33 
3d  H.  Art. 

C 
F 

« 
« 

Dawes,  Ambrose     .     . 

13 

A 

( 

ROLL    OF    SOLDIERS. 


249 


Term  of  Enlistment. 

Discharged. 

Remarks. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Prisoner,  Texas. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 
« 

Three  years. 
« 

Expiration  of  service. 

« 

Non-resident. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Prisoner,  Texas. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

(( 

(t 

Non-resident. 

Three  years, 

Expiration  of  service. 

<< 

(( 

Disability. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Three  years. 

Re-enlisted. 

Prisoner.  Starv'd 

at  Andersonville 

Aug.  I,  1864. 

« 

Disability. 

Re-enlisted  on 
Mansfield  quota. 

« 

Expiration  of  service. 
« 

Non-resident. 

(( 

Disability. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

« 

Disability. 

Pris.,  Belle  Isle. 
Died  July  22' '64. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Prisoner,  Texas. 

Ninety  days. 

« 

Nine  months. 

« 

Prisoner,  Texas. 

Three  years. 

Non-res.,  des'tr. 

(( 

Disability. 

Re-enlisted. 

(( 

Expiration  of  service. 

« 

« 

i 

Wd.  Antietam, 
Sept.  17,  1862. 

32 


250 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Names. 

Regiment. 

Company. 

Rank. 

Dawes,  Richard  C. 

44 

H 

Private. 

Deshon,  Francis      .     . 

38 

K 

« 

Devine,  John       .     .     , 

3d  U.  S.  Cav. 

I 

« 

Dix,  Joseph  O.    .     .     . 

50 

E 

(( 

Domenico,  Bilotto    .     . 

5th  U.S.  Cav. 

(( 

Donagan,  Maurice  .     . 

23 

K 

(( 

Dorring,  John      .     .     . 

45 

I 

(( 

Double,  Edmund  B. 

42 

G 

<( 

Drayton,  J.  Spencer     . 

35U.S.C.T. 

Captain. 

Drew,  WilHam  H.    .     . 

29 

F 

Private. 

Duffy,  Bernard    .     .     . 

Vet.  R.  C. 

(( 

Dunn,  Dennis     .     .     . 

5th  U.S.  Cav. 

D 

(( 

Dyer,  N.  Mayo    ... 

13 

Navy. 

A 

Lieut 

E. 

( 

Navy. 

Sabine. 

Seaman. 

Earl,  WilHam  H.      .     .{ 

39 

G 

Private. 

I 

Navy. 

Mendota. 

Seaman. 

Eastman,  William  H.  . 

2d  Bat. 

Private. 

Eddy,  Orrin    .... 

3d  H.  Art. 

<( 

Ellis,  Alvan  T.     .     .'     . 

13th  Bat. 

Corp'l. 

Ellis,  Jacob  M.    .     .     . 

2d  Bat. 

2d  Lieut. 

Emerson,  James  G.      .  | 

42 

G. 

Private. 

7th  Un.Co.  I. 

(< 

Emerson,  James  W.     . 

38 

K 

<( 

Emerson,  Joseph  S. 

7th  Un.Co.  I. 

<( 

Esbeck,  Charles       .     . 

3d  H.  Art. 

« 

Evans,  Thomas  C.   .     . 

45 

D. 

<( 

F. 

Fargo,  Charles  O.    .     . 

3d  H.  Art. 

F 

Private. 

Farrell,  Michael       .     . 

50 

E 

« 

ROLL    OF    SOLDIERS. 


•251 


Term  of  Enlistment, 

Discharged. 

Remarks. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Three  years. 

« 

<( 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

« 

(( 

Non-res.,  des'tr. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Non-resident. 

« 

« 

Wd.  Pris.,  Texas. 

Three  years. 
« 

DisabiHty. 

Afterwards  Pay- 
master, Rank  of 
Major. 

« 

Expiration  of  service. 
« 

Non-resident. 

To  enter  Navy. 

(I 

Now  in  Regular 
Service. 

One  year. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Re-enlisted.  Wd. 

Three  years. 

Transferred. 

at  Hagerstown, 

Expiration  of  service. 

Md. 

« 

(( 

Prisoner,  Texas. 

ti 

Non-resident. 

(( 

Non-res.,  des'tr. 

(I 

« 

Re-enlisted. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Prisoner,  Texas. 

Ninety  days. 

« 

Three  years. 

« 

Ninety  days. 

(f 

Three  years. 

Non-resident. 

Nine  months. 

Disability. 

Wd.  Kinston, 
Dec.  14,  1862. 

Three  years. 

DisabiHty. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment, 

252 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Names. 


Ferguson,  John  , 
Fimeyer,  Philip  . 
Fisher,  George  W. 
Foss,  George  A. 
Foss,  James  T.    . 

Frank,  WilHam    . 
Freeland,  Joseph  V 
Frisby,  John   .     . 
Fuller,  George  P. 
Fuller,  Henry  F. 

Fuller,  William  A, 

Ferguson,  John  . 


Gallagher,  Edward 
Gallagher,  John  . 
Gallagher,  Richard 
Gillispie,  John 


Goericke,  Frederic  . 
Gofifeney,  Robert 
Green,  Augustus 

Greene,  Martin  . 

Grover,  Andrew  J.  , 

Grover,  George  W.,  Jr. 
Grover,  John  C. 
Grover,  William  W. 


Regiment. 

Company. 

39 

I 

8th  U.  S.I. 

K 

17 

A 

45 

I 

45 

D 

SthU.S.Cav. 

F 

45 

A 

59 

A 

50 

E. 

17 

A 

Navy. 

Ft.  Don- 

elson. 

45 

I 

SthU.S.Cav. 

D. 

50 

F 

99  N.Y.  Reg. 

•     G 

2d  Cav. 

D 

U.  S.  Cav. 

8th  U.  S.  I. 

K 

22 

G 

2 

G 

22 

G 

3d  H.  Art. 

C 

3d  H.  Art. 

C 

17 

K 

5 

K 

Rank. 


Private. 


Music'n. 
Private. 


3d  Ass't 
Eng'r. 
Private. 


Private. 


ROLL    OF    SOLDIERS. 


253 


Term  of  Enlistment. 

Discharged. 

Remarks. 

Three  years. 
« 

Expiration  of  service. 
« 

Non-resident. 

« 

Disability. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Non-resident. 

« 

« 

Wd.  Kinston, 
Dec.  14,  1862. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

« 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

« 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Three  years. 

Died  at  Baltimore, 
Md.,Oct.  6,  1 86 1. 

One  year. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Non-resident. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

Nine  months. 

Non-res.,  des'tr. 

Three  years. 

« 

(( 

Non-res.,  died 

from  wounds,  July 

20,  1864. 

« 

Non-resident. 

u 

Killed,  Bethesda 
Ch.Va,,June  3,'64. 

(1 

Died  from  w'nds, 
Aug.  16,  1862. 

u 

DisabiHty. 

Re-enlisted. 

u 
11 

With  Regiment. 
« 

tt 

Expiration  of  service. 

« 

One"  hundred  days. 

With  Regiment. 

254 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Names. 

Regiment. 

Company. 

Rank. 

H. 

Hagan,  John  J.         .     . 

Vet.  R.  C. 

Private. 

Haggerty,  Daniel     .     . 

59 

A 

« 

Halpine,  Bartholomew 

59 

B 

(( 

Hamilton,  Robert    .     . 

50 

E 

<( 

Hammond,  George       .  j 

1 

3d  H.  Art. 

C 

« 

Navy. 

Juniata. 

Seaman. 

Hanigan,  John    .     .     . 

32 

C 

Private. 

Hare,  Andrew     .     .     . 

48 

G 

Serg't. 

Harrington,  Charles  T. 

50 

E 

Private. 

Harris,  John   .... 

45 

I 

« 

Harris,  Samuel    .     .     . 

71U.S.C.T. 

« 

Harris,  William  .     .     . 

2d  Cav. 

H 

« 

Hart,  Abner  B.    .     .     . 

44 

G 

(( 

Harvey,  Franklin     .     . 

Navy. 

Miami. 

Seaman. 

Hawkes,  John      .     .     . 

50 

E 

Private. 

Hayes,  James      .     .     . 

U.  S.  Cav. 

« 

Haynes,  Joseph  W. 

17 

K 

(( 

Hecker,  Charles  F.  .     . 

5th  U.S.  Cav. 

Music'n. 

Heton,  John  .... 

42 

G 

Private. 

Hinckley,  George  H.    . 

20 

A 

(( 

Hollis,  Henry  P.      .     . 

2d  Cav. 

H 

(( 

Howard,  Avery  B.   .     . 

3d  Bat. 

Corp'l. 

Howard,  James  R.  .     . 

38 

K 

Private. 

Howe,  Francis  E.    .     . 

2d  Bat. 

Serg't. 

Hughes,  James    .     .     . 

3d  Cav. 

G 

Private, 

Hyde,  George  S.      .     . 

I. 
Ireson,  Alonzo  D.    .     . 

42 

G 

(( 

42 

G 

Private. 

Ireson,  David  A.      ,     . 

42 

G 

Music'n. 

Ingalls,  Samuel  .     .     . 

5th  Cav. 

Ass't 
Surgeon. 

ROLL    OF    SOLDIERS. 


^55 


Term  of  Enlistment. 

Discharged. 

Remarks. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

« 

Disability. 

« 

<( 

Expiration  of  service. 

« 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

(( 

Three  years. 

Transferred. 

u 

Expiration  of  service. 

« 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

« 

Non-resident. 
« 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Rep.  Recruit  for 
David  Fairbanks. 

(( 

Non-res.,  des'tr. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Two  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Non-resident. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

(( 

<i 

« 

Re-enlisted. 

« 

« 

Non-resident. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Prisoner,  Texas. 

Three  years. 
« 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

Disability. 

Died  at  Melrose, 

(( 

« 

Aug.  1 6,  1864. 

(( 

Non-res.,  des'tr. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Prisoner,  Texas. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 
« 

Resigned. 

Prisoner,  Texas. 

256 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Names. 

Regiment. 

Company. 

Rank. 

J. 

Jackson,  Henry  M. 

59 

B 

Private. 

Jackson,  Jacob  F.     .     . 

16 

F 

a 

Jackson,  William  H.     . 

39 

G 

(( 

Jackson,  William  P. 

13 

A 

« 

Jenkins,  George       .     . 

59 

A 

(( 

Johnson,  William  A.    . 

59 

B 

(t 

Johnson,  William  H.    . 

54 

« 

Jones,  Charles  S.     .     . 

39 

G 

(( 

Jones,  Davis   .     .     .     .  { 

58U.S.C.T. 

(t 

I 
Jones,  Henry  H.      .     . 

13 

A 

Corp'l. 

Judkins,  Roland  C. 

42 

G 

Wag'nr. 

Junkins,  Edwin  W. 

45 

D 

•Private. 

K. 

Kelley,  Patrick    .     .     . 

38 

I 

Private. 

Kendall,  Edward  W.    . 

17 

A 

Bvt.  I  Lt. 

Kennelly,  James  A. 

38 

I 

Corp'l. 

Kennerk,  John    .     .     . 

SthU.S.Cav. 

B 

Private. 

Kenniston,  Charles  .       < 

( 

38 

I 

Music'n. 

Kilby,  Theophilus    .     , 

13 

A 

Private. 

King,  David  H.  .     .     . 

2d  Cav. 

K 

t( 

King,  George  L.      .     . 

.        13 

A 

<( 

King,  John  S.      .     .     . 

SthU.S.Cav. 

F 

(( 

Kingdom,  John   .     .     . 

Navy. 

•Tioga. 

Seaman. 

Kingman,  William  W. 

50 

E 

Private. 

Knights,  Henry  C.  .     . 

50 

E 

« 

Kober,  Charles    .     .     . 

5  th  U.S.  Cav. 

« 

Koeppen,  John    .     .     . 

2d  U.  S.  I. 

K 

« 

Kohler,  Charles       .     . 

Navy. 

Seaman. 

Krantz,  Frederick  W. 

33 

C 

Private. 

ROLL    OF    SOLDIERS. 


257 


Term  of  Enlistment. 

Discharged. 

Remarks. 

Three  years. 
« 

Expiration  of  service. 
DisabiUty. 

Non-resident. 

« 

« 

Expiration  of  service. 
« 

Non-resident. 

« 

« 

Nine  months. 
« 

« 
« 
« 

With  Regiment. 
« 

« 

Vet.  Res.  Corps. 
Rep.  Recruit  for 
Daniel  Russell. 
Pris.,  Belle  Isle. 
Prisoner,  Texas. 

Three  years. 

« 
« 

« 
« 

With  Regiment. 
Expiration  of  service. 

Disability. 
Expiration  of  service. 

With  Regiment. 

Disability. 

Expiration  of  service. 
« 

Non-resident. 
« 

Wounded,  Port 

Hudson,  June  14, 

1863. 

Non-resident. 

Three  years. 
Nine  months. 
Nine  months. 
Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

With  Regiment. 

<( 

Expiration  of  service. 
« 

Non-resident. 
« 

(( 
(( 

« 

« 

Prisoner,  twice. 

33 


258 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Names. 


Lafferty,  James  . 
Lahey,  John  .  . 
Lalley,  Thomas  J. 
Lamb,  John  R.  . 
Lane,  Francis  W. 
Lane,  John  .  . 
Lange,  Andrew  . 
Launzen,  Christian 
Lee,  George  E.  . 
Leeds,  Samuel  . 
Leighton,  WiUiam  F. 
Lemont,  Henry  . 
Lever,  Richard    . 

Lewis,  Thomas    . 
Lewis,  Walter  H. 
Liffin,  James 
Lindsey,  Joseph 


Littlefield,  Gushing  W, 
Lombard,  Gharles  E 
Long,  John     ,     . 
Longwood,  John 
Ludirzen,  George  S 
Lutz,  William 
Lyall,  David  S.    . 
Lyman,  Henry  H. 
Lynde,  Amos  W. 


Lynde,  Benjamin 

Lynde,  Charles  B, 
Lynde,  George  W. 


Regiment. 

Company. 

Navy. 

Vet.  R.  C. 

Navy. 

30 

B 

Navy. 

« 
16 

C 

45 

D 

Navy. 

Maratanza. 

59 

A 

Navy. 

Mahaska. 

59 

B 

29 

F 

24 

B 

Navy. 

II 

K 

19 

Navy. 

1 2th  U.  S.  I. 

B 

8 

E 

50 

E 

42 

G 

7th  Un.Co.  L 

38 

K 

42 

G 

17 

A 

Rank. 


Seaman. 

Private. 

Seaman. 
« 

Private. 
Seaman. 


Serg't. 
Private. 
Seaman. 
Private. 

Seaman. 
Private. 
Drum'r, 
Private. 


Seaman. 
Private. 

Seaman. 

Bugler. 

Private. 


Corp'l. 

Private. 

(( 
Bvt.  2  Lt. 


ROLL   OF   SOLDIERS. 


259 


Term  of  Enlistment. 

Discharged. 

Remarks. 

Three  years. 
« 

« 

Expiration 

( 

of  service. 

< 

< 
< 

Non-resident. 

« 

« 
« 

« 
(( 

<( 
(( 

{( 

Nine  months. 

Three  years. 
<( 

(t 

« 
« 
« 

(( 

With  Regiment. 
Expiration  of  service. 

Expiration  of  service. 
« 

« 
« 

Re-enHsted. 

Non-resident, 

K'ld.,  Spottsylva- 

nia.  May  12,  1864. 

Non-resident. 
0 

« 
« 

« 

« 
« 

« 

Disabihty. 
Expiration  of  service. 

Sub.  for  Henry 

W.  Barrett. 

Wounded. 

Non-resident. 

<( 

One  hundred  days. 

Nine  months. 
(( 

Ninety  days. 

Three  years. 

Nine  months. 
Three  years. 

With  Regiment. 
« 

With  Regiment. 
Expiration  of  service. 

Prisoner,  Texas. 

Died  at  Baton 
Rouge,  La.,  Aug. 

18,  1863. 
Prisoner,  Texas. 
Died  at  Melrose, 

Jan.  30,  1866. 

26o 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Names. 

Regiment. 

Company. 

Rank. 

Lynde,  Sherman      .     . 

1st  Cav. 

G 

Corp'l. 

M. 

Macey,  James      .     .     , 

13 

E 

Private. 

Macey,  John  S.    .     .     .  ( 

17 

A. 

(( 

Navy. 

Philippi. 

Seaman. 

Marra,  James       .     .     . 

59 

D 

Private. 

Marshall,  James       .     . 

45 

D 

(( 

Marshall,  Samuel     .     . 

42 

G 

ii 

Marston,  James  M. 

42 

G 

(( 

Martin,  George  T.   .     .  j 

38 

K 

istLieut. 

1 

4th  H.  Art. 

c    . 

<< 

Martin,  Jeremiah  Jr.    .  j 

Navy. 

Tritonia. 

Paymas- 

1 

ters'  Cl'k. 

Martin,  William  H. 

38 

K 

Serg't. 

McAllister,  Daniel  W. 

22 

G 

Private. 

McAllister,  George  H. 

50 

E 

(( 

McDonald  Angus    .     . 

20 

A 

t< 

McKay,  Gurdon  .     . 

5 

B 

(( 

22 

G 

2d  Lieut. 

McLaughlin,  Frank  M. 

Navy. 

Kearsarge. 

Yeoman. 

McLaughlin,  Hiram     . 

6 

A 

Private. 

McLaughlin,  George  W. 

45 

D 

(( 

McMahan,  Philip     .     . 

17 

I 

« 

Mitchell,  George      .     . 

Navy. 

Tioga, 

Seaman. 

Moran,  Bernard  .     .     . 

5th  U.S.  Cav. 

Private. 

Moran,  Thomas  .     .     . 

Vet.  R.  C. 

« 

Morrison,  Charles  H.  .  ( 

22 

G 

(( 

i 

38 

I 

Serg't. 

Morrison,  Seth    .     .     . 

4 

F 

Private. 

13 

A 

(< 

Morse,  George  J.     .      < 

2dU.S.C.T. 
59 

G 

2d  Lieut. 
istLieut. 

ROLL    OF    SOLDIERS. 


261 


Term  of  Enlistment. 


Three  years. 


Three  years. 

One  year. 
Three  years. 
Nine  months. 


Three  years. 
One  year. 


Three  years. 

Nine  months. 
Three  years. 

Three  months. 
Three  years. 

One  hundred  days, 
Nine  months. 
Three  years. 


Discharged. 


Three  months. 


Three  years. 


Expiration  of  service. 


Expiration  of  service. 

DisabiUty. 

Expiration  of  service. 
(( 

With  Regimeni. 


Disabihty, 
Expiration  of  service, 


Disabihty. 
With  Regiment. 

Disability, 
With  Regiment, 

Dismissed. 

Expiration  of  service, 

With  Regiment, 
it 

Expiration  of  service 


Disabihty. 

With  Regiment. 

Disabihty. 


Remarks. 


Re-enHsted. 

Non-resident. 

Prisoner,  Texas. 
Non-res.,  des'tr. 
Died  at  Boston, 
March  13,  1865. 


Re-enhsted. 


Re-enHsted. 

Non-resident. 
(( 

Re-enhsted. 
Deserter. 

Wd.  Sec'nd  Bull 

Run,  Aug.  30,  '62. 

Wd,  Port  Hudson, 

July  5,'63.  Killed 

Spottsylvania, 

May  12,  1864. 


262 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


^                   Names. 

Regiment. 

Company. 

Rank. 

Morse,  Sydney  B.  2d   . 

13 

D 

Corp'l. 

Mullcott,  Adolphus 
Munn,  Thomas  J.    .     . 

59 
13 

A 
A 

Private. 
« 

Murphy,  Patrick      .     . 
Myars,  John   ....     . 

Vet.  R.  C. 
45 

I 

N. 

Nichols,  George  G.  .      < 

Nichols,  Smith  W.,  Jr. 
Nichols,  William  R.     . 
Nolan,  Thomas   .     .    '. 
Noonan,  Edward     .     . 
Noyes,  George  O.    .       | 

0. 

42 

7thU.C0.Inf. 

4th  H.  Art. 

Navy. 

50 
4th  U.S.  Art. 
SthU.S.Cav. 

38 

G 
K 

Shenandoah 

D 
A 

K 

Serg't. 
istLieut. 

Lieut. 

Music'n. 

Private. 
« 

Corp'l. 

O'Donaghue  John   .     . 
O'Leary,  Timothy   .     . 
O'Regan,  Michael    .     . 
Otslott,  Frederick   .     . 

P. 

Page,  Moses  S.    .     .     . 
Parsons,  William      .     . 

50 
U.  S.  Marines. 

59 
8th  U.  S.  I. 

E 

A 
K 

Private. 

« 

6 
50U.S.C.T. 

E 

Private. 
« 

Peabody,  Francis      .      f 
< 

22 
17 

G 
K 

Orderly. 

Peabody,  Torrey      .     . 
Peabody,  Torrey,  Jr.     . 

22 
17 

G 
K 

Private. 

ROLL   OF    SOLDIERS. 


203 


Term  of  Enlistment. 

Discharged. 

Remarks. 

Three  years. 
« 

« 
« 

Expiration  of  service. 

« 

« 

Died  at  Washing- 
ton, Sept.  16,  '62. 

Non-resident. 

Wd.  Gettysburg, 

July  I,  1863.  Vet. 

Res.  Corps. 

Non-resident. 
« 

Nine  months. 

Ninety  days. 

One  year. 

Nine  months. 
Three  years. 

With  Regiment. 
« 

« 

With  Regiment, 
Expiration  of  service. 

As  Acting  Lieut. 
Co.  E. 

On  Col.  King's  Staff. 

U.  S.  Navy. 
Non-resident. 

« 

« 

« 

Wounded,  Port 

Hudson,  June 

14,  1863. 

Nine  months. 

Four  years. 

Three  years. 
« 

Expiration  of  service. 

Disability. 
Expiration  of  service. 

Non-res.,  des'tr. 

Non-resident. 
« 

« 

One  hundred  days. 
Three  years. 

(( 
« 

With  Regiment. 
Expiration  of  service 

Disability. 

Disability. 
Expiration  of  service. 

Rep.  Recruit  for 
Dexter  Bryant. 

Re-enlisted. 

Re-enlisted.  Died 

at  New  Berne,  N. 

C,  Oct.  3,  1864. 

264 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Names. 

Regiment. 

Pearson,  William  H,    . 

3d  U.  S.  Art. 

Peaseley,  Charles  D.    . 

59 

Pemberton,  Lewis  E,  . 

61 

Penn,  Isaac     .... 

4th  U.S.  Art. 

Perkins,  Benjamin  W. 

59 

Perkins,  James  F,    .     . 

Navy. 

Perkins,  John,  Jr.     .       ( 
Perse,  William  A.    .     . 

45 

8th  U.  S.  L 

Pike,  Jacob  F.     .     .     . 

39 

Pilling,  James  L.      .     . 

60 

Pratt,  Daniel  S        .     . 

1st  Cav. 

Pratt,  Henry  W.      .     . 

8     • 

Prentice,  Charles     .     . 

50 

Prescott,  Horace      .     . 

9th  Bat. 

Prince,  Albert  G.     .     . 

18 

Q- 

Quinn,  John  E.        .     . 

32 

Quinn,  John  H.  .     .     . 

99th  N.  Y. 

Quinn,  Patrick    .     .     . 

8 

R. 

Rain,  William  G.     .     . 

8th  U.  S.  L 

Reardon,  Lawrence 

3d  H.  Art. 

Reynard  John  H.     .       ( 
Rice,  George       .     .     . 

Navy. 

38 

48 

1 

Richardson,  Alfred  C.    < 

Richardson,  George  E.  j 
Richardson,  John  P.     . 

38 

17 

Company. 

Rank. 

Private. 

D 

(i 

F 

<( 

A 

« 

B 

« 

Act.  Ensiga 

D 

Private. 

F 

Private. 

G 

G 

G 

E 

E 

E 

A 

Private. 

B. 

Private. 

E 

« 

D 

Corp'l. 

K 

Private. 

Seaman. 

F 

Private. 

D 

Music'n. 

K 

Private. 

K 

( 

ROLL    OF    SOLDIERS. 


265 


Term  of  Enlistment 


Three  years. 
(< 

One  year. 
Three  years. 


Nine  months. 
Three  years. 

One  hundred  days 
Three  years. 

One  hundred  days 
Nine  months. 
Three  years. 


Three  years. 

« 
One  hundred  days. 

Three  years. 

« 

Nine  months. 

Three  years. 

« 
34 


Discharged. 


Remarks. 


Expiration  of  service 


Disabihty. 

Expiration  of  service 
« 

With  Regiment. 

Expiration  of  service. 

With  Regiment. 
« 

Expiration  of  service, 
Disability. 


Disabihty. 

Expiration  of  service. 
With  Regiment. 


Expiration  of  service. 


Expiration  of  service. 


Non-resident. 


Non-resident. 


Wd.,  Kinston, 
Dec.  14,  1862. 
Non-resident. 


Wd.  Second  Bull 
Run,  July  30,  '62. 

Re-enlisted  on 
quota  of  Boston. 


Non-resident. 
« 

Sub.  for  James  O. 
Lynde. 
Non-resident. 
Non-res.  Died  at 
Baton  Rougej  La., 

Aug.  8,  1863. 
Died  at  Salisbury, 
N.  C,  Nov.  3,  '64. 
Re-enlisted. 


266 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Names. 

Regiment 

Company. 

Rank. 

Richardson,  William  H. 

3d  H.  Art. 

c 

Private. 

Riley,  James  .... 

iithU.  S.  L 

« 

Riley,  William    .     .     . 

iithU.  S.  L 

(( 

Roberts,  Charles  H.     . 

44 

E 

« 

Robertson,  William 

2d  Cav. 

D 

« 

Rowell,  Stephen  P.          \ 

i8 

H 

(( 

50 

D 

Serg't. 

Ryan,  James  .... 

19 

Private. 

Ryan,  Michael    .     .     . 

S. 
Sassard,  Augustus  .     . 

59 

F 

« 

13 

A 

Private. 

Sawyer,  Obadiah     .     . 

39 

I 

<( 

Seafferman,  Henry  .     . 

5th U.S.  Cav. 

K 

« 

Seavey,  Leonard  C. 

2d  Bat. 

(( 

Shannon,  Martin     .     . 

23 

K 

(( 

Shelton,  Albert  F.  .       ( 
1 

13 

A 

« 

Shelton,  Charles  W.       ( 

13 

A 

Serg't. 

Shelton,  John  R      .       j 

13 

A 

Private. 

Shelton,  Thomas      .      j 

50 

E 

Private. 

8 

E 

« 

Shrekler,  Frederick 

8th  U.  S.  L 

D 

« 

Shrodenback,  Joseph   . 

5th  U.S.  Cav. 

It 

Simms,  Daniel    .     .     . 

(( 

(( 

Simonds,  Charles  H.    . 

50 

E 

(( 

Simonds,  Joseph  F.        ( 

13 

A 

« 

3d  Cav. 

D 

Captain. 

Simonds,  Joseph  R. 

17 

K 

(( 

Simonds,  Joseph  W.       ( 

44 

D 

Private. 

8 

E 

(( 

Sinclair,  Thomas  J. 

8th  U.  S.  I. 

B 

« 

Singler,  Louis     .     .     . 

« 

B 

« 

Skinner,  Charles  E. 

5  th  Bat. 

« 

ROLL    OF    SOLDIERS. 


267 


Term  of  Enlistment 


Three  years. 
« 

Nine  months. 
Three  years. 

Nine  months. 
Three  years. 


Three  years. 


Nine  months. 

One  hundred  days, 

Three  years. 


Nine  months. 
Three  years. 


Nine  months. 

One  hundred  days, 

Three  years. 


Discharged. 


Expiration  of  service 


Disability. 

DisabiHty. 

With  Regiment. 

Expiration  of  service, 


Disability. 
Expiration  of  service, 


Disability. 
(( 

General  service. 

With  Regiment. 
« 

Expiration  of  service. 
« 

With  Regiment. 

Disability. 

Expiration  of  service. 
(( 

With  Regiment. 
« 

Expiration  of  service. 

i( 

Disability. 


Remarks. 


Non-resident. 


Non-res.,  des'tr. 
Re-enlisted. 

Non-resident. 


Non-resident. 


Wd.,  Antietam, 
Sept.  17,  1862. 
Wd.,  Antietam, 
Sept.  17,  1862. 
Killed,  Antietam, 
Sept.  17,  1862. 
Re-enlisted. 

Non-resident. 


Re-enlisted. 
Wd.  three  times. 

Re-enlisted. 

Non-resident. 


268 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Names. 


Slocumb,  Henry  W.  . 
Small,  Edward  A.  .  . 
Smith,  Thomas    .     . 

Smith,  Wayland  R. 
Souggroe,  Timothy 
Spaulding,  Henry  H.  . 
Spear,  William  S.    .     . 
Sprague,  Samuel  Jr. 

Stantial,  Thomas  B. 
Starbuck,  George  M.    . 
Stebbens,  Thaddeus  S. 
Stevens,  Charles  H. 
Stevens,  Thomas  H. 

Stilphen,  John  E. 

Stone,  Henry  .     .     . 

Sumner,  Stephen  .  . 
Sweetser,  Thomas  T, 

T. 

Tainter,  George  A.  . 

Taltersall,  Edward  .  . 
Tobey,  Samuel     .     . 

Todd,  Thomas     .     . 
Tower,  Benjamin     . 


Turck,  John    .     . 
Tucker,  William  L. 
Tyler,  William  N. 


Regiment. 


Company. 


30 

Navy. 

5 
4th  Bat. 

43 
Vet.  R.  C. 

6 
Vet.  R.  C. 

12 

5  th  Bat. 
26 

.    39 
ist  Cav. 

16 
2d  Bat. 

39 

59 

5 
42 


13 

5th  U.S.  Cav 
9th  Bat. 

48 
38 


3d  H.  Art. 
9th  Bat. 


E 

Wabash. 
B 

A 

A 

A 


A 
G 
G 
A 


Rank. 


Private. 

Act.  Master. 

Private. 


G 
G 
H 
G 


A 
F 


D 
K 


K 


Corp'l. 

Artificer. 

Private. 
(( 

2d  Lieut. 
Private. 


Corp'l. 
Serg't. 
Private. 


Private. 


Serg't. 
Corp'l. 


Private. 

Corp'l. 

Serg't.-Maj. 


ROLL    OF    SOLDIERS. 


269 


Term  of  Enlistment 

Discharged. 

Remarks. 

Three  years. 
« 

Expiration  of  service. 

Re- enlisted. 

Three  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Re-enlisted. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

« 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

One  hundred  days. 

With  Regiment. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

« 

Disabihty. 

Wd.,  Antietam, 
Sept.  17,  1862. 

« 

AboHshment  of  office. 

« 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

« 

Disability. 

« 

Expiration  of  service. 

Wounded. 

« 

Died  at  Boston, 
March  26,  1863. 

« 

Expiration  of  service. 

Died  at  Melrose, 
June  25,  1865. 

« 

Disability. 

Wounded.  Pris- 

« 

With  Regiment. 

oner,  Libby. 

Nine  months. 

(( 

« 

a                 * 

Wounded.  Pris- 
oner, Texas. 

Three  years. 

Disability. 

Wd.,  Antietam, 
Sept.  17,  1862. 

(( 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

(( 

With  Battery. 

Wd., Gettysburg, 
July  2,  1863. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment, 

Non-resident. 

Three  years. 

(( 

Wounded,  Cedar 

Creek,  Oct.  19, 

1864. 

(( 

Disability. 

Non-resident. 

tt 

With  Battery. 

One  hundred  days. 

With  Regiment. 

Also  on  S.  Read- 
ing quota. 

270 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL, 


Names. 

Regiment. 

Company. 

Rank. 

Tyrrill,  Andrew  ,    . 
U. 

Navy. 

Seaman. 

Upham,  Charles  H. 

42 

G 

Private. 

Upham,  Henry  W. 

60 

G 

(( 

V. 

Vinton,  Edwin  A.    .       ( 

42 

G 

Private. 

8 

E 

(( 

Vinton,  Gray .     .     .     . 

8 

E 

« 

W. 

Waitt,  John  R.    .     .     . 

6 

A 

Private. 

Wallace,  John      .     .     . 

19 

<( 

Walsh,   Thomas      .     . 

15 

B 

(( 

Ward,  Reuben  D.    .       ( 

Navy. 

George 

Seaman. 

May  hew. 

Warren,  Nathaniel  ^.     . 

<( 

« 

Waters,  Henry    .    \     . 

« 

<( 

Watts,  Simon  C,      .     . 

Navy. 

Neipsic. 

(( 

Weeks,  Seymour     .     . 

(( 

tt 

Welden,  George  E. 

« 

« 

Wells,  Charles  A.    .     . 

II 

I 

Private. 

Wharton,  Joseph     .     . 

Navy. 

Seaman. 

White,  Charles  L.    .       ( 
Whitney,  Edward  H.   . 

1st  H.  Art. 

E 

Private. 

13 

D 

Serg't. 

Wilbur,  William  H.        j 
j 

Navy. 

St.  Law- 

Seaman. 

rence. 

Wilde,  Benjamin  F. 

42 

H 

Private. 

Wilkins,  Charles  B. 

Navy. 

Seaman. 

Wilkinson,  Robert  .     . 

(( 

(( 

Williams,  Charles  J.     . 

Navy. 

Seaman. 

Williams,  George     .     . 

(( 

St.  Law- 
rence. 

« 

ROLL    OF    SOLDIERS. 


271 


Term  of  Enlistment 

Discharged. 

Remarks. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Sub.  for  Daniel 
W.  Wilcox. 

Nine  months. 
One  hundred  days. 

With  Regiment. 
« 

Prisoner,  Texas. 

Nine  months. 
One  hundred  days. 

With  Regiment. 
<< 

tt 

Prisoner,  Texas. 

One  hundred  days. 

Three  years. 
« 

With  Regiment. 
Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 
« 

(( 

« 

tt 

(( 

tt 

tt 

« 

tt 

tt 

« 

tt 

tt 

it 

tt 

tt 

« 

ft 

tt 

tt 

« 

u 

tt 

It 

*t 
it 

tt 
tt 

Wd.,  Warrenton 
Junction. 

It 

ft 

Non-resident. 

Nine  months. 

Three  years. 
« 

Expiration  of  service. 
« 

Deserter. 

Non-resident. 
(I 

tt 

(( 

tt 

tt 

« 

tt 

2/2 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Names. 

Regiment. 

Company. 

Rank. 

Williams,  Walter     .     . 

Navy. 

Seaman. 

Wilson,  John  .... 

50 

F 

Private. 

Wilson,  John       .     .     . 

39 

I 

« 

Wilson,  Samuel  .     .       j 
Wilson,  Thomas  E. 

Navy. 

Seaman. 

(( 

Aries. 

« 

Woodman,  Robert  .     . 

(( 

(( 

Wyman,  George  W.     . 

6 

A 

Private. 

Wyman,  Weston      .     . 

6 

A 

(( 

Wyman,  William     .       j 

5 

B 

(( 

24 

C 

« 

Y. 

Yeaton,  George  .     .     . 

29 

A 

Drum'er. 

York,  Benjamin  F.  .     . 

56 

B 

Private. 

York,  Josiah  R.  .     . 

42 

G 

<> 

/thUn.Co.L 

(( 

York,  William  B.     . 

42 

G 

(( 

7th  Un.  Co.  I. 

« 

Young,  John  W.      .     . 

59 

F 

« 

MELROSE   CITIZENS   WHO   SERVED 


,  Names. 

Regiment. 

Company. 

Rank. 

Barrett,  David  A.    .     . 
Chambers,  John  L. 

: 

Davis,  Charles  L.     .     . 
Elliott,  George  W.  .       j 

17th  Mass. 
Navy. 

8th  Maine. 

K 

Morning 

Light. 

E 

E 

Corp'l. 
Master's 

Mate. 
Private. 

Krantz,  William  F.         j 
Macey,  William  H.         | 

33d  Mass. 
Vet.  R.  C. 
3d  Maine. 

C 
F 

n 

Martin,  Charles  H. 
Thompson,  John      .•    . 

4th  Ms.  H.  A. 

Navy. 

C 

Rhode  IslU 

Corp'l. 
Seaman. 

ROLL   OF    SOLDIERS. 

273 

Term  of  Enlistment. 

Discharged. 

Remarks. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

Nine  months. 

Non-res.,  des'tr. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

(( 

ft 

Sub.  for  George 
Emerson  2d. 

it 

u 

u 

Non-resident 
« 

One  hundred  days. 

With  Regiment. 

Three  months. 

(( 

Re-enlisted. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Wounded. 
Re-enlisted. 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

(( 

(( 

Pris.,  Danville. 

Nine  months. 

With  Regiment. 

Prisoner,  Texas. 

Ninety  days. 

<( 

Nine  months. 

« 

Prisoner,  Texas. 

Ninety  days. 

« 

Three  years. 

Expiration  of  service. 

Non-resident. 

ON    OTHER    QUOTAS. 


Term  of  Enlistment 

On  what  Quota. 

Remarks, 

Three  years. 
« 

Maiden. 
Boston. 

Prisoner  over 

It 

Augusta,  Me. 
(t 

two  years. 

Pris'r,  4  Months. 
Re-enlisted. 

it 

Maiden. 

Re-enlisted. 

u 
u 

One  year. 

Douglass. 
Skowhegan,  Me. 

Franklin. 
Boston. 

Died  June  1 3  '66. 

Died  at  Alexandria, 
Va.,  Aug,  30,  1862. 

35 


APPENDIX. 


APPENDIX. 

A. 

CERTIFICATE   OF   A   NON-RESIDENT   RECRUIT. 

Boston,  Dec.  20,  A.  D.  1862. 

I,  William  R.  Riddle,  a  ist  Lieutenant  Twentieth  Mass. 
Vols,  in  the  military  service  of  the  United  States,  and  duly  author- 
ized to  act  as  a  Recruiting  Officer,  do  hereby  certify  that  I  have, 
on  the  twentieth  day  of  December,  A.  D.  1862,  caused  to  be 
mustered  into  the  military  service  of  the  United  States,  in  Co. 
A,  Twentieth  Regiment,  to  serve  for  three  years  or  during  the 
.war,  unless  sooner  discharged,  George  H.  Hinckley,  to  be 
applied  upon  the  quota  of  the  town  of  Melrose  ;  and  that,  to  the 
best  of  my  knowledge  and  belief,  the  said  George  H.  Hinckley 
has  not  been  previously  reported  to  the  Adjutant-General's 
office,  and  is  not  a  resident  of  any  other  town  or  city  in  this 

Commonwealth. 

WM.   R.    RIDDLE, 
isi  Lieutenant  Twentieth  Mass.  Vols., 
Recruiting  Officer. 

B. 

FORM  FOR  PAYMENT  OF  BOUNTY. 

No.  30.  *  Melrose,  Aug.  16,  1862. 

Mr.  Caleb  Howard,  Town  Treasurer. 

Sir :  Pay  to  Joseph  A.  Chapin  of  Melrose,  a  recruit  accepted 
and  mustered  into  the  service  of  the  United  States  by  Lieu- 
tenant Adams,  for  the  Ninth  Battery  Massachusetts  Volunteers, 
the  sum  of  One  Hundred  Dollars  bounty,  as  per  order  of  the 


278 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Town,  passed  July  28,  1862,  he  being  a  part  of  the  quota  of 
troops  to  be  furnished  by  the  Town  of  Melrose,  for  three  years 
unless  sooner  discharged  by  proper  authority. 

JOHN  H.  CLARK, 
WM.  B.  BURGESS, 
G.  M.   FLETCHER, 

Selectmen  of  Melrose. 

I  hereby  certify  that  I  enlisted  the  above  named  Joseph  A. 
Chapin  into  the  Ninth  Battery,  and  that  he  was  mustered  into 
the  service  of  the  United  States,  on  the  29th  day  of  July,  1862, 
by  Lieutenant  Adams,  of  the  United  States  Army. 

ALEX.   H.   WHITAKER, 

Lieutenant  Ninth  Battery. 
This  was  indorsed  as  follows  : 

No.  30.  Melrose,  Aug.  16,  1862. 

I,  Joseph  A.  Chapin,  hereby  acknowledge  to   have  received 

of  the  Town  Treasurer  of  Melrose,  One  Hundred  Dollars  as 

bounty  for  enlistment  in  the  service  of  the  United  States,  as 

within. 

JOSEPH   A.   CHAPIN. 
Witness,  William  B.  Burgess. 

The  form  of  payment  of  Bounty  for  the  nine  months'  men 
differed  from  the  above  only  in  the  date  of  Town  action  —  Aug. 
21,  1862,  —  and  the  amount  paid.  One  Hundred  and  Fifty 
Dollars. 

C. 

CERTIFICATE   OF   CONSENT  TO   THE    ENLISTMENT   OF   A   MINOR. 

I,  Hiram  McLaughlin,  do  certify,  that  I  am  the  father  of 
George  W.  McLaughlin,  that  he  is  nineteen  years  of  age ;  and 
I  do  hereby  freely  give  my  consent  to  his  enlisting  as  a  soldier 
in  the  Massachusetts  Volunteer  Militia,  for  the  period  of  nine 
months  in  the  service  of  the  United  States. 

HIRAM  Mclaughlin. 

Witness,  RoYAL  P.  Barry. 
Dated  at  Melrose,  this  first  day  of  October,  A.  D.  1862. 


APPENDIX. 


279 


D. 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  circular  and  list  of  the  citizens 
of  Melrose,  liable  to  Draft  in  1863,  posted  in  our  town  by 
direction  of  Provost-Marshal  Herrick. 

ENROLLMENT   LIST,   SIXTH   DISTRICT   MASSACHUSETTS. 

List  of  persons   enrolled   in  Sub-District  No.   Nine,  Town   of 

Melrose. 

Any  person  herein  enrolled  may  appear  before  the  Board  of 
Enrollment,  at  Lawrence,  on  the  days  of  December,  1863, 

from  eleven  to  one  o'clock,  and  two  to  five  o'clock,  and  have 
his  name  stricken  off  the  List,  if  he  can  show  to  the  satisfac- 
tion of  the  Board  that  he  is  not,  and  will  not  be  at  the  time 
fixed  for  the  next  Draft,  Jan.  5,  1864,  liable  to  do  Military 
duty  on   account  of 

I.  Alienage.  2.  Non-residence.  3.  Unsuitableness  of  age. 
4.  Manifest  permanent  physical  disability. 


Class  I. 
A. 

Allen,  John  L. 

Alden,  David  A. 

Allen,  William  H. 

Astle,  James 

Atwood,  Sullivan  C. 

Anderson,  John  H.  L. 

Babb,  Walter 

B. 

Bishop,  Daniel  H. 

Banfield,  Addison  W. 

Blaisdell,  Charies  H. 

Barrett,  Henry  W. 

Brackett,  Gilbert  A. 

Barrett,  James  A. 

Brown,  George  E. 

Barrett,  Jonathan 

Brown,  Laroy 

Bartlett,  Nathaniel  J. 

Browne,  Orrin 

Biathrow,  Franklin 

Bryant,  Dexter 

Biffin,  James 

28o 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Chase,  Daniel  L. 
Chase,  Sanford  W. 
Cheever,  Augustus  L.  ^ 
Coburn,  Lucius 

Davis,  Edmund  W. 
Dodge,  James  W. 

Edmonds,  Artemas  B. 
Emerson,  George  W. 
Emerson,  Joseph  S. 

Fairbanks,  Joseph  A. 
Fargo,  Charles  O. 
Farnsworth,  George  W. 
Fernald,  James  H. 
Finnegan,  Dennis 
Finnegan,  Edward 

Gilmore, 'William  M. 
Goodwin,  Joseph 
Gordon,  Curtis  S. 
Gordon,  William  F. 
Goss,  Elbridge  H. 

Hammond,  George 
Harris,  Augustine 
Hawkins,  John 
Hayward,  Daniel  E. 
Hemmenway,  William 
Henderson,  John  H.  B. 
Hill,  William  L. 


Cook,  William 
Corson,  George  G. 
Crocker,  John  H. 

D. 

Donalavy,  William 

E. 

Emerson,  Richard  W. 
Emery,  Joshua  Jr. 

F. 

Finnegan,  William 
Fennerty,  Thomas 
Freeman,  Leander  T. 
French,  Alonzo 
Fuller,  William  A. 
Furneaux,  Charles 

G. 

Gould,  Levi  S. 
Greene,  Benjamin  F. 
Grover,  Andrew  J. 
Grover,  George  W.  Jr. 
Grundy,  William 

H. 

Hollahan,  Lawrence 
Hopkins,  James  S. 
Howard,  Caleb  G. 
Howard,  Otis 
Howe,  Francis  E. 
Howes,  Jonathan  C. 


APPENDIX. 


281 


Irvine,  Fayette  J. 

Jackson,  William  P. 

Keating,  Thomas 
Keith,  Charles  E. 
Keyes,  Silas 


Leonard,  Henry  A, 
Littlehale,  Henry  A, 
Lord,  Samuel 
Lyall,  David  S. 
Lunt,  George  G. 


Magoon,  Sylvanus 
McCaflferty,  Michael  A, 
McLenathan,  Charles 
Merrick,  Theodore  B. 
Morcomb,  Henry  P. 


Newhall,  Edward  B, 
Newhall,  Henry  B. 

Parker,  Edward 
Page,  Moses  S. 
Patterson,  Alonzo 
Paul,  William  F. 
Peck,  Oren  H. 
Pierce,  Ansel  B. 
36 


I. 


J. 

K. 

Knight,  Edwin  F. 
Knights,  Edward  R. 
Knowles,  Theodore  L. 

L. 

Lynch,  John  B. 
Lynde,  Charles  A. 
Lynde,  Daniel  jA, 
Lynde,  James  O. 
Lynde,  Leonard 

M. 

Moseley,  Randolph  L, 
Morse,  William 
Morse,  William  F. 
Murray,  John 
Munn,  Lawrence  K. 

N. 
Norton,  John  R. 

P. 

Pierce,  Robert  W. 
Pollock,  George  W. 
Porter,  Lucius  L.  D. 
Pratt,  Dexter 
Prentice,  George 


282 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Quinn,  Thomas 

Rankin,  Frederick  W.  A.  Jr. 
Richards,  Aaron  H. 
Richardson,  Lewis  H. 
Richardson,  WilHam  H. 

Sanford,  Joseph  B. 
Sears,  Elisha  F. 
Shelton,  Albert  F. 
Shelton,  Richard  H. 
Shelton,  Stephen  W. 
Skinner,  Glover 
Small,  James  M. 
Spinney,  William  K. 

Tainter,  George  A. 
Tay,  Aaron 
Taylor,  Marcus  C. 
Taylor,  William 
Thompson,  John 

Upham,  Albert 
Upham,  Charles  F. 
Upham,  Osgood  W. 

Vaughn,  William  W. 

Waitt,  Charles  A. 
Warren,  William 
Watson,  Frank 
Wells,  William  H. 


Q. 

R. 

Ripley,  Augustus 
Roberts,  Joseph  L. 
Robbins,  Charles 
Robinson,  Samuel  A. 

S. 

Stantial,  George  C. 
Stantial,  Thomas  B. 
Stevens,  Henry  A. 
Stone,  George  F. 
Stone,  William  H. 
Stratton,  William  D. 
Smith,  Rufus 
Sutton,  Joseph  P.  B. 

T. 

Tower,  John  W. 
Tourlellot,  Samuel  M. 
Towner,  Levi  C. 
Trask,  Albert 
Trott,  Andrew  P. 

U. 

Upham,  Sylvanus 
Upham,  Timothy 

V. 

W. 

Wilcox,  Daniel  W. 
Wilde,  Joseph  D. 
Woodward,  George 
Wyman,  William 


APPENDIX, 


283 


Class  II. 


Adams,  John  Q. 

Baldwin,  John 
Barker,  Samuel 
Barrett,  Augustus 
Bartlett,  George  W. 
Bickford,  Ira  H. 
Bird,  Henry  S. 
Boardman,  George  A, 
Boardman,  William  W. 

Chapin,  Calvin  N. 
Clark,  William 
Cleaveland,  Nathan  S. 
Cobb,  John  W. 
Cobb,  Elisha  W. 
Coburn,  Lewis  G. 
Conway,  Daniel 

Davie,  George 
Dow,  Milo 

Edgerly,  Obadiah  S. 
Edgerly,  Peter 


Avery,  John  Q.  A. 
B 

Brooks,  Augustus 
Brown,  Benjamin 
Bradford,  Erastus  F. 
Brown,  Increase  H,  Jr. 
Brown,  John 
Bugbee,  Samuel  S. 
Bryant,  Napoleon  B, 
Buffum,  Carlon 

C. 

Coolidge,  Charles  G. 
Courriea,  Charles  M. 
Crowley,  Jeremiah 
Curtis,  Samuel 
Chase,  Daniel  G. 
Coffin,  Galen 
Connell,  James 

D. 

Dyer,  John  A. 

E. 

Emerson,  George  2d. 
Emerson,  Isaac  Jr. 


Fessenden,  George  F. 

Gateley,  John 
Gilman,  Tristram 
Gooch,  Daniel  W. 


Foster,  Daniel  W. 

G. 

Goss,  Allen  C. 
Gould,  Albert  A. 
Greeley,  William  P. 


284 


THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 


Haley,  Reuben  F. 
Hamblet,  James  Jr. 
Hart,  George 
Hawkins,  Thomas 
Hayward,  Jabez  G. 
Heath,  George  W. 
Hemmenway,  George 


H. 

Hicks,  Walter 
Hill,  David 
Hodges,  James  D. 
Hoefifner,  Lewis  G. 
Holbrook,  Joseph 
Horn,  James 
Hudson,  Jarvis  P. 


Isburgh,  Charles  H. 
Jefferson,  Daniel 

Kelley,  Farnsworth 
Kendall,  Samuel  E. 
Kent,  Elisha  V. 


K. 

Kimball,  Thomas  J. 
Kirmes,  Christopher 


Lane,  Addison 
Lamson,  William  A. 
Leavitt,  Rufus 
Little,  Edmund  B. 


Mansfield,  George  A. 
McCoubry,  Thomas 
Mclntyre,  Joseph 


Newhall,  George 
Newhall,  John 

Parker,  Moses 
Pemberton,  Calvin 
Perkins,  Albert  P. 


Littlefield,  Walter  Jr. 
Loring,  Martin  B. 
Lynde,  Alonzo  V. 
Lynde,  William  O. 

M. 

Messenger,  Charles  A. 
Messenger,  Frank  A. 
Morton,  Daniel  O. 

N. 
Norton,  Daniel  Jr. 

P. 

Perkins,  John  Jr. 
Poole,  William  F. 


APPENDIX. 


285 


Robbins,  Charles  G. 
Roberts,  John  K. 

Sales,  Ephraim 
Sargent,  Wingate  P. 
Severence,  Sargent  F. 
Severy,  Solomon 
Shepard,  Thomas 


R. 

Russell,  Daniel 


Sewall,  John  S. 
Simonds,  Charles  H. 
Spaulding,  Henry  H. 
Sprague,  Alfred  W. 
Stevens,  Edgar  M. 


Taylor,  Fernando  C. 
Terwillager,  Lyell  S. 

Upham,  Benjamin  R. 

Varney,  Cyrus 
Vinton,  Aaron  Jr. 

Warren,  Ralph 
West,  John 
Wheeler,  Gardner 
Wheeler,  George  G. 

Young,  Isaiah  A. 

Captain 


Trowbridge,  Henr}'  E. 
Turner,  Henry 

U. 

Upham,  Orne 

V. 
Vinton,  Gray 

W. 
Wheeler,  Robert 
Whowell,  John 
Whyte,  Oliver 
Woodward,  David  R. 

Y. 

H.    G.    HERRICK, 
and  Provost-Marshal^  Sixth  Dist,  Mass. 


EXEMPTION   PAPERS. 

Those  citizens  who  had  the  pleasure  of  reading  their  names 
in  the  afternoon  papers  of  July  13,  1863,  as  among  the  drafted, 
received  soon  afterwards  a  letter  from  the    Provost-Marshal, 


286  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

notifying  them  of  the  fact,  and  to  appear  before  the  Board  of 
Enrollment  at  Lawrence,  for  examination.  If  not  exempted 
for  any  cause,  a  choice  was  given  the  accepted  person  to  furnish 
a  substitute,  or  pay  commutation  money.  The  following  is  the 
form  of  receipt  and  certificate  given  in  the  latter  case. 

Sixth  Massachusetts  Collection  District. 

No.   121. 

Received  at  Haverhill,  on  the  fourteenth  day  of  August,  1863, 
from  Osgood  W.  Upham,  of  Melrose,  who  was  drafted  into  the 
service  of  the  United  States,  on  the  thirteenth  day  of  July,  1863, 
from  the  Sixth  Congressional  District  of  the  State  of  Massa- 
chusetts, the  sum  of  Three  Hundred  Dollars  ($300),  to  obtain, 
under  Section  13  of  the  "Act  for  enrolling  and  calling  out  the 
national  forces,  and  for  other  purposes  —  approved  March  3, 
1863,"  a  discharge  from  further  liability  under  the  draft. 

Signed  in  triplicate. 

GEO.    COGGSWELL, 
Receiver  of  Commutation  Money, 

certificate  of  non-liability  to  be  given  by  the  board  of 
enrollment. 
We,  the  subscribers,  composing  the  Board  of  Enrollment  of 
the  Sixth  District  of  the  State  of  Massachusetts,  provided  for  in 
Section  8,  Act  of  Congress  "  for  enrolling  and  calling  out  the 
national  forces,"  approved  March  3,  1863,  hereby  certify  that 
Osgood  W.  Upham,  of  Melrose,  Middlesex  County,  State  of 
Massachusetts,  having  given  satisfactory  evidence  that  he  is  not 
properly  subject  to  do  military  duty,  as  required  by  said  act,  by 
reason  of  having  paid  Three  Hundred  Dollars,  is  exempt  from 
all  liability  to  military  duty  for  the  term  of  the  present  draft. 

H.   G.   HERRICK, 
Provost- Marshal  and  Pres.  Board  of  Enrollment. 
r.    E.    DAVIS, 

Member  of  Board  of  Enrollment, 
J.    L.    SULLIVAN,  JR., 

Surgeon  of  Board  of  Enrollment. 
Dated  at  Lawrence,  this  twentieth  day  of  August,  1863. 


APPENDIX.  287 

When  a  substitute  was  furnished,  or  when  exemption  was 
granted  for  the  various  causes,  except  disability,  the  same 
kind  of  certificate  was  used,  differing  only  in  the  reason  given 
for  exemption.  For  exemption  from  disability  the  following  was 
the  form. 

CERTIFICATE   OF    EXEMPTION    FOR  A  DRAFTED   PERSON   ON 
ACCOUNT   OF   DISABILITY. 

This  is  to  certify,  That of  Melrose,  Middlesex  County, 

State  of  Massachusetts,  having  been  drafted,  and  claiming 
exemption  on  account  of  disability,  has  been  carefully  exam- 
ined, and  is  found  to  be  unfit  for  military  duty  by  reason  of 

and,  in  consequence  thereof,  he  is  exempt  from 

service  under  the  present  draft. 

H.   G.   HERRICK, 
Provost-Marshal  and  Pres.  Board  of  Enrollment. 
P.   E.   DAVIS, 

Member  of  Board  of  Enrollment. 
J,   L.    SULLIVAN,  JR., 

Surgeon  of  Board  of  Enrollment. 
Dated  at  Lawrence,  this  thirty-first  of  July,  1863. 

F. 

CERTIFICATE    OF    NON-LIABILITY    TO    BE    GIVEN    BY    THE    BOARD 
OF   ENROLLMENT. 

We,  the  subscribers,  composing  the  Board  of  Enrollment  of 
the  Sixth  District  of  the  State  of  Massachusetts,  provided  for 
in  Section  8,  Act  of  Congress,  "  for  enrolling  and  calling  out 
the  national  forces,"  approved  March  3,  1863,  hereby  certify 
that  George  Emerson,  2d,  of  Melrose,  of  Middlesex  County, 
State  of  Massachusetts,  having  given  satisfactory  evidence  that 
he  is  not  properly  subject  to  do  military  duty,  as  required  by 
said  Act,  and  the  Act  approved  Feb.  24,  1864,  and  July  4, 
1864,  by  reason  of  having  furnished  an  acceptable  substitute,  is 


288  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

exempt  from  all  liability  to  draft,  not  exceeding  the  time  for 
which  his  substitute  was  enlisted,  viz.,  three  years. 

H.    G.   HERRICK, 

Provost-Marshal  and  Pres.  Board  of  Enrollment. 
S.   W.   HOPKINSON, 

Member  of  Board  of  Enrollment. 
JOHN  L.    SULLIVAN,  JR., 

Surgeon  of  Board  of  Enrollment. 

Dated  at  Lawrence,  Mass.,  this  twenty-third  day  of  July,  1864. 

CERTIFICATE   OF    EXEMPTION   OF    THE    SUBSTITUTE    FURNISHED 
BY   THE   ABOVE. 

I,  Samuel  Wilson,  of  Nova  Scotia,  do  hereby  certify  that  I 

am  not  legally  subject  to  enrollment  or  draft,  under  the  Acts  of 

Congress  for  enrolling  and  calling  out  the  national  forces  of  the 

United  States,  and  for  the  following  reasons :     That  I  am  an 

alien  and  subject  to  the  British  Government.    That  I  have  never 

voted  in,  or  declared  my  intention  of  becoming  a  citizen  of  the 

United  States. 

SAMUEL  WILSON. 

We,  the  subscribers,  do  hereby  certify  that  we  have  such 
knowledge  of  said  Samuel  Wilson  as  to  leave  no  doubt  in  our 
minds  of  the  truth  of  his  statement. 

JAMES    KUHN,  of  Boston,  11  Clark  Street: 
W.  M.  I.  BOTHAM,  of  Boston,  ()  F.  H.  Square. 

SUFFOLK,   SS. 

Personally  appeared  the  above  named  Samuel  Wilson,  James 
Kuhn,  and  W.  M.  I.  Botham,  and  severally  made  oath  that  the 
above  Certificate  is  correct  and  true,  according  to  the  best  of 
their  knowledge  and  belief. 

Dated  at  Boston,  Mass.,  this  twentieth  day  of  July,  1864. 

[stamp.] 
THATCHER  C.    HATCH, 

Justice  of  the  Peace. 


APPENDIX.  289 


RECEIPT   AND    CERTIFICATE    FOR   REPRESENTATIVE    RECRUIT. 

Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts. 

Treasurer's  Office,  Boston,  Aug.  i,  1864. 

Received  of  Daniel  Russell  of  Melrose,  One  Hundred  and 
Twenty-Five  Dollars,  for  account  of  the  Provost-Marshal  General 
of  the  State  of  Massachusetts,  to  be  used  for  recruiting  purposes 
under  General  Order  No.  27,  1864,  such  recruit  to  be  credited 
to  the  quota  of  Melrose.     Representative  Recruit. 

HENRY   K.   OLIVER, 

Treasurer. 
LEVI    REED,   Auditor. 


Commonwealth  of  Massachiisetts. 

This  is  to  certify  that  Daniel  Russell  of  Melrose,  in  said 
Commonwealth,  a  citizen  not  liable  to  be  drafted  into  the  mili- 
tary service  of  the  United  States,  has  paid  the  sum  of  One 
Hundred  and  Twenty-Five  Dollars  into  the  State  Treasury, 
under  General  Order  of  Commonwealth,  No.  27,  dated  July  14, 
A.  D.  1864,  to  assist  in  recruiting  the  national  armies,  and  has 
had  assigned  to  him  as  his  Representative  Recruit,  Private 
Davis  Jones,  Fifty-Eighth  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry.  Enlisted 
under  the  Act  of  Congress  providing  for  the  recruitment  of 
volunteers  in  the  Rebellious  States,  approved  July  4,  A.D.  1864. 

Given  under  my  hand,  at  the  Head-Quarters  of  said  Com- 
monwealth at  Boston,  this  fourth  day  of  January,  one  thousand 
eight  hundred  and  sixty-five. 

JOHN   A.    ANDREW, 
Governor  of  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts. 

J.    M.    DAY, 
Colonel  and  Provost-Marshal  of  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts. 

37 


290  THE    MELROSE    MEMORIAL. 

H. 

Provost-Marshal's   Office,   ') 

6th  District,  Mass.,         >- 

Lawrence,  May  6,  1864.     ) 

You  are  hereby  informed  that  the  Board  of  Enrollment  of  the 
Sixth  District  Massachusetts  has  appointed  you  an  Enrolling 
Officer  for  the  Sub-District,  as  follows,  viz  :  No.  9,  being  the 
town  of  Melrose,  at  a  compensation  of  three  dollars  per  diem, 
for  the  time  actually  employed. 

You  will  immediately  enter  upon  your  duties,  and  complete 
the  enrollment  required  under  the  amended  Enrollment  Act  of 
Feb.  24,  1864,  without  the  least  delay. 

You  will  enroll, 

I  St.  All  persons  liable  to  draft  whose  names  have  been 
omitted  in  the  former  enrollment.  These  omissions  you  will 
learn  by  reference  to  the  accompanying  printed  lists. 

2d.  All  persons  who,  since  the  former  enrollment,  and  prior 
to  this,  shall  have  arrived  at  the  age  of  twenty  years.* 

3d.  All  aliens  who  have  declared  their  intention  of  becom- 
ing citizens,  and  not  heretofore  enrolled. 

4th.  All  persons  discharged  from  the  military  or  naval  service 
of  the  United  States,  who  have  not  been  in  such  service  two 
years  during  the  present  war,  whether  heretofore  enrolled  or 
not;  except  those  borne  upon  the  printed  lists. 

5th.  You  will  enroll,  upon  separate  sheets,  the  names  of  any 
and  all  persons  whose  names  are  borne  on  the  printed  lists,  who 
shall  have  arrived  at  the  age  of  forty-five  at  the  time  of  the  com- 
pletion of  your  enrolment. 

6th.  You  will  return,  on  a  separate  sheet,  the  names  of  all 
persons  borne  on  the  printed  list,  who  are  now  in  the  service, 
stating  as  far  as  you  are  able,  their  regiment  and  company,  and 
all  who  have  died. 

H.    G.    HERRICK,   Capt.  and Pro.-Mar.,^       Board 
S.    W.    HOPKINSON,  Com'r,  \  of 

JOHN    L.    SULLIVAN,  JR.,  Surgeon,       )   Enrollment. 

To  Mr.  Stephen  Shelton,  Melrose,  Mass. 


APPENDIX.  291 


DISCHARGE   PAPERS. 
ARMY. 

To  all  whotn  it  may  concern. 

[Vignette  :  Eagle  standing  on  shield,  surrounded  with  flags  and  stars.] 
Know  ye,  That  Moses  S.  Page,  a  Private  of  Captain  Frank 
H.  Whitcomb's  Company  (E)  Sixth  Regiment  of  Infantry, 
Massachusetts  Volunteers,  who  was  enrolled  on  the  fifteenth 
day  of  July,  1864,  to  serve  one  hundred  days,  is  hereby  dis- 
charged from  the  service  of  the  United  States,  this  twenty- 
seventh  day  of  October,  1864,  at  Readville,  Massachusetts,  by 
reason  of  term  of  enlistment  having  expired.  (No  objection  to 
his  being  re-enlisted  is  known  to  exist.) 

Said  Moses  S.  Page  was  born  in  Haverhill,  in  the  State  of 
New  Hampshire,  is  twenty-six  years  of  age,  five  feet  eight  and 
one-half  inches  high,  light  complexion,  blue  eyes,  brown  hair, 
and  by  occupation,  when  enrolled,  a  Broker. 

Given  at  Readville,  this  twenty-seventh  day  of  October,  1864. 
*     J.   W.    MEANS, 
First  Lieutenant  Eighth  Infantry,  U.  S.  M.  O. 
FRANK   H.   WHITCOMB, 
Captain  Comd'g.  Co.  E,  Sixth  Mass.  Re^t. 

NAVY. 

United  States  of  America. 

[Vignette  :    War  vessels  at  sea.] 

Navy  Department. 

The  war  for   the  preservation  of  the  Union  having,  under 

the  beneficent  guidance  of  Almighty  God,  been   brought  to  a 

successful  termination,  a  reduction  of  the  naval  force  becomes 

necessary. 

Having  served  with  fidelity  in  the  United  States  Navy  from 
the  fourteenth  day  of  November,  1862,  to  the  present  date,  you 


292  THE    MELROSE     MEMORIAL. 

are  hereby  honorably  discharged  with  the  thanks  of  the  Depart- 
ment. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  of  the  Navy  Department,  at 
the  City  of  Washington,  this  twentieth  day  of  September,  1865. 

GIDEON   WELLES, 

Secretary  of  the  Navy. 

j  SEAL  OF  THE  NAVY  ) 
\        DEPARTMENT.        \ 

JAMES   F.    PERKINS, 

Acting  Ensign   U.   S.  Navy, 

Melrose,  Mass. 

J. 

ACTION    OF    THE    TOWN, 
NOV.    3,    1868. 

Hon.  Samuel  E  Sewall  offered  the  following  resolution,  which 
was  unanimously  adopted  : 

That  the  Selectmen  be  authorized  to  subscribe  and  pay  for  a  sufficient 
number  of  copies  of  Mr.  Elbridge  H.  Goss'  ..work,  entitled  "  The  Melrose 
Memorial :  The  Annals  of  Melrose,  County  of  Middlesex,  Massachusetts, 
during  the  Great  Rebellion  of  i86(-5,"  to  furnish  a  copy  to  every  inhab- 
itant of  this  town  who  served  as  a  soldier  or  sailor  in  the  Rebellion,  now 
living,  and  a  copy  for  the  family  of  each  of  said  soldiers  and  sailors  as  have 
deceased ;  also  for  twenty-five  additional  copies  for  the  town,  any  of  which  may 
be  given  to  public  libraries  at  the  discretion  of  the  Selectmen. 

And  on  motion  of  Hon.  Daniel  W.  Gooch,  it  was  voted  that 
the  following  inscription  be  embossed  in  gilt  letters  on  the  cover 
of  each  copy  thus  given  : 

Presented  to  —  (name  of  soldier  or  sailor)  —  by  the  Town  of  Melrose,  in 
recognition  of  his  services  during  the  Great  Rebellion  of  1861  -  5. 


ERRATA. 
Page  100  —  For  Bodwell,  Danitl  A.,  read  Henry  A. 
"    175  —  For  yames  S>.  Macey,  read  John  S.  Macey. 
"    243  —  Omitted  in  List  of  Officers  in  the  Navy  : 
Smith  W.  Nichols,  Jr.     Midshipman,  Sept.  27,  1858 ;   Lieutenant,  Feb. 

21,  1863  ;   Lieutenant  Commander,  July  25,  1866. 
Page  256  —  Omitted  in  Alphabetical  Roll  : 

Jones,  J.  Wesley,  12th  U.  S.  Inf.     ist  Lieut. 


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